execution warrant
Legal death authorization
An execution warrant is a legal document authorizing the carrying out of a death sentence.
Issued by a court or governor, it specifies the condemned person and the date by which the execution must occur.
The term also appears in finance, where an execution warrant authorizes seizure of property to satisfy a debt judgment.
- judicial orderLegally binding court directive
- judgeOne who decides
- supreme courtApex of judicial hierarchy
- public executionsState-sanctioned deaths with spectators
- prosecutorGovernment's trial lawyer
human rights · due process · penal code · defense attorney · final appeal · abolition movement · habeas corpus · wrongful conviction · innocence project · statute · jury · correctional facility · constitutional law · legal precedent · retributive justice · sentencing guidelines · parole board · death row
- executionlethal injection, firing squad, gas chamber, electric chair, the chair
- warrants
- executionshanging, guillotine, beheading, firing squad, electric chair
- military executionfiring squad, death sentence, military tribunal, condemned, military court
- prison recordsinmate number, booking number, parole records, case files, booking form
execution warrantpardon
Official release from punishment
commutation · clemency · stay of execution · reprieve · presidential pardon
execution warrantdischarge papers
Forms ending military obligation
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