<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article is incomplete . Please help to improve it, or discuss the issue on the talk page . (March 2015) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article is incomplete . Please help to improve it, or discuss the issue on the talk page . (March 2015) </Td> </Tr> <P> A coup de grâce (/ ˌkuː də ˈɡrɑːs /; French (ku də ɡʁɑs) for "blow of mercy") is a death blow to end the suffering of a severely wounded person or animal . It may be a mercy killing of civilians or soldiers, friends or enemies, with or without the sufferer's consent . </P> <P> Examples of coup de grâce include shooting the heart or head (typically the back of the skull) of a wounded, but still living, person during an execution or by humanely killing a suffering, mortally wounded soldier, in war, for whom medical aid is not available . Other examples include leading a firing squad administering a coup de grâce to the condemned with a pistol if the first hail of gunfire fails to kill the prisoner or a beheading to quickly end a samurai's agony after seppuku . </P>

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