EXECUTION

Putting a condemned person to death

• capital punishment
• death penalty
• executing  19

• corporal punishment

• burning  10
• burning at the stake
• hanging  12
• burning  10
• • electrocution  17
  • beheading  16
  • decapitation  17
  • crucifixion  25
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The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it

Example: "They criticized his performance as mayor"

• carrying into action
• carrying out
• performance  20

• action  8

• specific performance
• linguistic performance
• mechanics  18
• mechanism  18
• • officiation  19
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(computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer

• instruction execution

• physical process
• process  11

• batch processing
• concurrent execution
• multiprogramming

(law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable

• execution of instrument

A routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out

• writ of execution

The act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order

Example: "The agency was created for the implementation of the policy"

• carrying out
• implementation  20

Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being

• slaying  11

• homicide  16

• assassination  13
• bloodshed  16
• gore  5
• contract killing
• • parricide  14
  • mariticide
  • fratricide  16
  • uxoricide  19
  • filicide  14
  • elimination  13
  • liquidation  21
  • butchery  18
  • carnage  10
  • mass murder
  • massacre  12
  • slaughter  13
  • lynching  17
  • regicide  12
  • dry-gulching
  • hit  6
  • infanticide  17
  • shoot-down
  • tyrannicide  17
  • thuggee  12
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