legal execution
Sanctioned death penalty
Legal execution is the carrying out of a death sentence imposed by a court—state-sanctioned killing as punishment for a crime.
Methods have included hanging, firing squad, electrocution, gas chamber, and lethal injection.
The legal execution was scheduled for midnight.
The phrase distinguishes lawful capital punishment from extrajudicial killing or murder.
- court orderBinding judicial directive
- hangingExecution by noose
- firing squadGroup executing by gunshot
- lethal injectionCapital punishment by needle
- electrocutionDeath from electrical current
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- insolvencyinsolvency, bankruptcy court, liquidation, bankruptcy, creditors
legal executionmurder
Deliberate unlawful killing
unlawful killing · vigilantism · lynching · assassination · mob justice
legal executionpardon
Official release from punishment
clemency · reprieve · commutation · stay of execution · sparing
legal executionacquittal
Formal clearing of charges
release · pardon · exoneration · absolution · discharge
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