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StandgerichteCourt Martial: The establishment of extraordinary courts to combat serious offences against law and order and public security was allowed under the Code of Civil Procedure of 1873 and abolished by the Federal Constitutional law of 1968. Jurisdiction was vested in those courts of first instance on whose district martial law was imposed. Decisions were taken by a panel of four professional judges in simplified proceedings and consisted mostly in imposing the death penalty, which was executed immediately after the pronouncement of the sentence. Literature: H. Klecatsky, Der Rechtsstaat zwischen heute und morgen, 1969.
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