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execution

Execution is the act or style of executing an action. Execution is the carrying out of a sentence of death on a condemned person. Execution is the carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer. The entire machine slowed down during the execution of the virus checker.

execution

putting a condemned person to death (= performance) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it they criticised his performance as mayor experience generally improves performance (= implementation) the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order the agency was created for the implementation of the policy (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer (= murder) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being

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Tom's execution was cancelled at the last moment.
Paper is patient. It can be a long time from the planning stage till the execution of a project. Not everything agreed on paper will be respected and accomplished. There is much written down that is wrong.
The President had the power to save the men from execution at the stroke of a pen.
The execution of the project took two months.
A stay of execution was ordered at the eleventh hour.

Movie subtitles

But they found in the clothes the papers in the name of lady Beltham who was accomplice of the murderer Gurn, who escaped Sante on the morning of his execution.
The other halves will be given to you in thirty days, that is to say after execution of clauses of the contract.
An execution for treason, I suppose.
You knew nothing before your execution.
If this be execution, lead me to it.
And it shall be a king who will order your execution for high treason.. exactly48hoursfromnow.
A double guard has been thrown around the jail, municipal buildings railroad terminals, and elevated stations to prepare for the expected general uprising of radicals at the hour of execution.
Another execution.
Mr. President, the execution is set for tomorrow.
I'm sorry, but you signed the order of execution yourself.
Here, ladies and gentlemen, we have the ax of the headsman. and the execution block.
It's execution!
And suspends execution of the sentence.
Suppose you got a stay of execution, new trial, acquittal of killing Cora.
Awaiting execution.
I must witness an execution.
Col. Bishop assures me that if he were in power. he would not rest day or night. until this Capt. Blood was swinging on execution dock.
Eddie's been pounding on the door of an execution chamber since birth.
Will it be necessary to postpone the execution?
The execution will go on as scheduled, at 11 pm.
If that's true, perhaps you'd explain before Prince John and the Court of Execution the meaning of this.
And it shall be a king who will order your execution for high treason exactly 48 hours from now.
If you hadn't interfered with the execution the girl would have been hanged and all would be well.
You'll end swinging in the wind at Execution Dock with tar to keep the weather out.
All London's outside the tower protesting the execution.
But, Your Grace, Lord Essex is preparing for execution.
Execution Dock with tar to keep the weather out. It's time we went.
It was once an execution ground.
What would be the sense of our struggle? Twenty-five years ago I led execution squads in France.
Betrayed by mediocre paper, betrayed by poor execution.
My son, is execution done on Cawdor?
Volley. Execution probably.
What is? My execution?
I told you, right? The shock of being pardoned just before execution drove me mad.
The sentence of this court is that you be taken to the place from whence you came, from thence to a place of lawful execution.
Before nearly every execution, someone comes forward like this.
You realise an obstruction of the police in the execution of their duty is an offence?

News and current affairs

Terrorism is a decentralized phenomenon - in its funding, planning, and execution.
If a convict turns out to be innocent, his execution cannot be undone.
This will involve difficult choices, delicate execution, and uncertain outcomes for both the federal government and the US Federal Reserve.
Times of crisis, however, like the approach of an execution, concentrate the mind.
Set aside the fact that Assad's forces have caused 10-15 times more civilian deaths thus far than the Islamic State, whose horrific execution videos have overshadowed the Syrian dictator's invisible massacres.
In reality, of course, QE - whether the expectation or execution of it - would affect both interest rates, and the inflation expectations that are derived from them.
Indeed, the only thing that I know for certain about those days is a strange curiosity: that Ceausescu endured his kangaroo court trial and execution with far more dignity than I would ever have imagined.
Dutch hostages were taken and threatened with execution.
NEW YORK - Like an inmate on death row, the euro has received another last-minute stay of execution.
Programs of change follow either a medical model of rehabilitation, therapy, reeducation, and treatment, or a punitive model of incarceration and execution.
Saving three innocent lives for every person executed seems like a very attractive trade-off, and even two lives saved per execution seems like a persuasive benefit-cost ratio for capital punishment.
Admittedly, however, the argument in favor of capital punishment becomes less clear-cut as the number of lives saved per execution falls.
If assault were punished with execution, perpetrators would have an incentive to kill their victims to avoid discovery (which is a major reason why the severity of punishments more generally should be matched to the severity of crimes).
However, I believe that the appeal process in the US offers enormous protection, not so much against wrongful conviction as against wrongful execution, so that there are very few, if any, documented cases of innocent people being killed.
They monitored and sanctioned the recruitment of consultants that conducted the studies related to these projects, as well as the expatriate staff involved in their execution.
One day after Nicolae Ceausescu's execution, most of these people suddenly became fierce anticommunists and victims of the system they had served for decades.
Two Australian drug traffickers have been scheduled for execution this month.
But removing some public expenditures from the deficit runs counter to sound execution of fiscal policy.
But because arrest no longer meant execution but long imprisonment, dissidents acquired a reasonable chance to emerge from prison or labor camps.
Scores of others, perhaps hundreds, have been carted off for interrogation, torture, or execution.
The tribunal and the local courts imprisoned 13 of those who gave the orders, as well as 17 execution-squad members; 11 more men, four of them leaders, are facing their reckoning.
The tribunal's Web site has video of an execution.
In Beijing millions of inhabitants were ordered to witness some 30,000 sentencing and execution rallies during the early 1950's.
Indeed, in 1950 and 1951 an estimated three million people perished by execution, torture, or suicide.
After Dokubu renewed threats to oil infrastructure last September, he was arrested on sedition charges and now faces the possibility of execution or life in prison.
But rapid punishment - most likely execution - threatens to bury the full record of decades of tyranny under the apparently overriding purpose of fighting the insurgency by other means.

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