executions
Lethal legal punishments
Executions is the plural of execution, which primarily means carrying something out or putting something into effect.
A business execution is the implementation of a plan: The strategy was sound, but the execution was flawed.
In law, execution is the carrying out of a death sentence—the act of killing someone as legal punishment.
Execution also refers to how skillfully something is performed: a flawless execution of the dive.
In computing, execution is running a program or process.
Legal execution for crimes
- lethal injectionCapital punishment by needle
- electric chairElectrocution execution device
- gallowsExecution hanging apparatus
- firing squadGroup executing by gunshot
guillotine · hanging · beheading · gas chamber · condemned · death row · last meal · scaffold
Complete thought, grammatically
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
- court orderBinding judicial directive
- verdictOfficial court decision
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
conviction · justice · due process · trial · judiciary · law enforcement · criminal · appeals
Large-scale unlawful killing
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
- purgeEliminate unwanted elements
- pogromViolent persecution of minorities
- slaughterKilling for meat
ethnic cleansing · killing fields · atrocity · extermination · holocaust · war crimes · firing line · mass graves
Executing a task
- completionAct of finishing
- performanceCarrying out a task
- accomplishmentSuccessful completion of aim
- fulfillmentState of achieved purpose
delivery · realization · enactment · implementation · discharge · effectuation · undertaking · administration
Entirely without fault
- skillfulHaving learned expertise
- technicalOf specific methods
- timingArt of choosing moments
- accuracyDegree of correctness
finesse · choreography · coordination · proficiency · mastery · expertise · meticulous · seamless
death penalty
Legal execution for crimes
- lethal injectionCapital punishment by needle
- electric chairElectrocution execution device
- gallowsExecution hanging apparatus
firing squad · guillotine · hanging · beheading · gas chamber · condemned · death row · last meal · scaffold · commutation
sentence
Complete thought, grammatically
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
- court orderBinding judicial directive
- verdictOfficial court decision
judgment · conviction · justice · due process · trial · judiciary · law enforcement · criminal · appeals · prosecution
massacre
Large-scale unlawful killing
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
- purgeEliminate unwanted elements
- pogromViolent persecution of minorities
slaughter · ethnic cleansing · killing fields · atrocity · extermination · holocaust · war crimes · firing line · mass graves · death squads
carrying out
Executing a task
- completionAct of finishing
- performanceCarrying out a task
- accomplishmentSuccessful completion of aim
fulfillment · delivery · realization · enactment · implementation · discharge · effectuation · undertaking · administration · conducting
flawless
Entirely without fault
accuracy · finesse · choreography · coordination · proficiency · mastery · expertise · meticulous · seamless · polished
- Irish HistoryGreat Famine, Easter Rising, Irish nationalism, Irish War of Independence, Irish Civil War
- Philippine historypresidents, Spanish rule, vice president, revolutionaries, Imelda
- rights abusestorture, ethnic cleansing, arbitrary detention, political prisoners, disappearances
- Stalin EraJoseph Stalin, Stalin, Stalinism, Stalingrad, Stalin era
- 1798 Rebellionpikemen, pikes, insurgents, French invasion, Wexford
- 1956 HungaryHungarian Revolution, 1956, freedom fighters, Soviet invasion, Soviet tanks
executionspardons
Official forgiveness of crimes
commutations · reprieves · clemency · acquittals · exonerations
executionsfailures
Unsuccessful attempts or outcomes
abandonments · defeats · cancellations · botches · neglects
- public executionWitnessed state killing
- legal executionLawful killing by state
- stay of executionTemporary halt to punishment
- judge, jury and executionerComplete autonomous legal authority
- mass executionKilling of many simultaneously
- execution chamberRoom for state killings