carrying out the sentence is known as an execution. A prisoner who has been sentenced to death and awaits execution is condemned and is commonly referred...

In civil and military jurisprudence, summary execution is the putting to death of a person accused of a crime without the benefit of a free and fair trial...

The execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein took place on 30 December 2006. Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted...

A writ of execution (also known as an execution) is a court order granted to put in force a judgment of possession obtained by a plaintiff from a court...

Middle Ages, and is the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. The first known account of execution by hanging is in Homer's Odyssey...

30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall, London. The execution, carried out by beheading the king, was the culmination of political and...

2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. His execution, which took place just over six years after the offense, was carried out...

Look up execution in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Execution is the act of putting a person to death, in execution of a judicial sentence of death...

An execution warrant (also called death warrant or black warrant) is a writ that authorizes the execution of a condemned person. In the United States either...

A mock execution is a stratagem in which a victim is deliberately but falsely made to feel that their execution or that of another person is imminent or...

Manufacturing execution systems (MES) are computerized systems used in manufacturing to track and document the transformation of raw materials to finished...

Execution in computer and software engineering is the process by which a computer or virtual machine interpret and acts on the instructions of a computer...

Speculative execution is an optimization technique where a computer system performs some task that may not be needed. Work is done before it is known...

Wrongful execution is a miscarriage of justice occurring when an innocent person is put to death by capital punishment. Cases of wrongful execution are cited...

a syntax plus an execution model. The execution model specifies the behavior of elements of the language. By applying the execution model, one can derive...

method of execution worldwide, used in about 70 countries, with execution by firing squad being one particular form. In most countries, execution by a firing...

Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading (from the French fusil, rifle), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common...

The execution van, also called a mobile execution unit, was developed by the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC)[citation needed] and was...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Public execution. A public execution is a form of capital punishment which "members of the general public may voluntarily...

An execution chamber, or death chamber, is a room or chamber in which capital punishment is carried out. Execution chambers are almost always inside the...

A Place of Execution is a crime novel by Val McDermid, first published in 1999. The novel won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2001 Dilys Award,...

The Execution may refer to: The Execution, a 1985 television movie starring Loretta Swit and Valerie Harper The Execution, a song by Spoon from their...

A botched execution is defined by political science professor Austin Sarat as: Botched executions occur when there is a breakdown in, or departure from...

abstained. Ultimately, they condemned him to death by a simple majority. The execution by guillotine was performed by Charles-Henri Sanson, then High Executioner...

The 5th Execution (Russian: Ключ Саламандры) is a 2010 Russian adventure film directed by Aleksandr Yakimchuk and Elena Kovaleva. Rutger Hauer as Khant...

Death by crushing or pressing is a method of execution that has a history during which the techniques used varied greatly from place to place, generally...

A stay of execution (Law Latin: cesset executio, "let execution cease") is a court order to temporarily suspend the execution of a court judgment or other...

people so it can judge him quickly. We want this, even though we think an execution platoon is too much of an honour for this man. He would deserve to be...

GHIH-lə-teen, -⁠loh-) is an apparatus designed for effectively carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted...

In computer engineering, an execution unit (E-unit or EU) is a part of the central processing unit (CPU) or graphics processing unit (GPU) that performs...