Regicide of criminology asserts that the punishment "should fit the crime", and should thus be proportionate and not extreme. This approach was spoofed by Gilbert and Sullivan, when The Mikado sang, ""My object all sublime, I shall achieve in time, to let the punishment fit the crime"". In common with earlier executions for regicides: In both the François Ravaillac and the Damiens cases, court papers refer to the offenders as a patricide, rather than as regicide, which lets one deduce that, through divine right, the king was also regarded as "Father of the country". Regicide The broad definition of regicide (
Killing of captives by ISIL committed near Mosul (670 Shia inmates of the Badush prison killed), and in Tal Afar prison, Iraq (205 Yazidis killed for refusing conversion). The UN estimated that 5,000 Yazidis were killed by ISIS during the takeover of parts of northern Iraq in August 2014. ISIS has tortured and murdered local journalists, creating what Reporters Without Borders calls "news blackholes" in areas controlled by ISIL. ISIL fighters have reportedly been given written directions to kill or capture journalists. ISIS has also killed aid workers. Killing of captives by ISIL Executions by ISIS refers here to killing by beheading, crucifixion, immolation, shooting