execution date
Death penalty appointment
The execution date is the scheduled date when something is to be carried out.
In legal contexts, it refers to the date set for carrying out a death sentence: The governor granted a stay just days before the execution date.
In business and finance, it's when a contract takes effect or a trade is completed: The execution date for the merger is set for next month.
- death rowHousing for condemned prisoners
- death warrantOrder authorizing an execution
- lethal injectionCapital punishment by needle
- last mealPre-execution food tradition
- last ritesSacrament for the dying
condemned · dead man walking · gallows · electric chair · sentence · appeal · stay · clemency · warden · countdown · final appeal · midnight · governor · pardon · eleventh hour · witness · chaplain · final words
- executionlethal injection, firing squad, gas chamber, electric chair, the chair
- executionshanging, guillotine, beheading, firing squad, electric chair
- legal deadlinesfiling deadline, time limit, legal deadline, statute of limitations, submission deadline
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