mass execution
Killing many together
Mass execution is the killing of multiple people at the same time, typically by a government, military force, or other authority.
The term usually implies a deliberate, organized act—firing squads, gas chambers, or mass shootings of prisoners or civilians: The regime carried out mass executions of political dissidents.
Distinguished from massacre by its formal, often state-sanctioned nature.
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
- firing squadGroup executing by gunshot
- death squadParamilitary killers targeting dissidents
- lined upArranged in order
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
gallows · holocaust · Nazi Germany · killing fields · atrocity · crime against humanity · guillotine · pogrom · purge · slaughter · death camp · ethnic cleansing · extermination · unmarked graves · carnage · victims · political prisoners · graves
- atrocitiesHolocaust, genocide, massacre, massacres, ethnic cleansing
- executionshanging, guillotine, beheading, firing squad, electric chair