Bullet fee

{{Short description|Fee charged to family of executed prisoner}}

A bullet fee is a financial charge levied on the family of executed prisoners. Bullet fees have been levied in the Islamic Republic of Iran,{{cite web |last=Melamed |first=Karmel |date=2019 |title='Paying for the bullet': A demonic Iranian regime tradition |url=https://www.jns.org/opinion/paying-for-the-bullets-a-demonic-iranian-regime-tradition/}}{{cite news |last1=Fassihi |first1=Farnaz |title=Son's Death Has Iranian Family Asking Why |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124571865270639351 |access-date=30 January 2023 |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=23 June 2009}} Kingdom of Yugoslavia,{{cite journal |last=Horvat |first=Vladimir |date=1996 |title=Nadbiskup Alojzije kardinal Stepinac i totalitarni režim |trans-title=Archbishop Alojzije Cardinal Stepinac and the totalitarian regime |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/3320 |language=hr |journal=Obnovljeni život: časopis za filozofiju i religijske znanosti |volume=51 |issue=1–2|pages=149–165 |access-date=2020-12-15}} as well as in the People's Republic of China,{{cite web|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/12/1047431092598.html |title=Chinese try mobile death vans |publisher=The Age |date=2003-03-13}}{{cite news|last1=Kristof|first1=Nicholas D.|last2=Times|first2=Special to The New York|title=Law and Order in China Means More Executions|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/15/world/law-and-order-in-china-means-more-executions.html|work=The New York Times|date=1991}} Ethiopiahttps://www.hrw.org/reports/pdfs/e/ethiopia/ethiopia.919/c6terror.pdf and Nazi Germanyhttp://karlrobertkreiten.de/hinrichtung/kostenrechnung.php, cf. item Kosten der Strafvollstreckung at the bottom of the list on the families of executed prisoners.