execution
361
6.5
- noun
- /ˌɛksɪˈkjuːʃən/
:
ejecución
- I'm here to cover the execution for the Examiner.
- a public execution
- torture and execution
- mass executions
Who would want to condemn someone to execution based on those odds?
- Who would want to condemn someone to execution based on those odds?
- So he does the first actual electric chair execution, but it goes wrong.
- Ivan's modernizing reforms gave way to a reign of terror and mass executions fuelled by his violent paranoia.
- Ivan's modernising reforms gave way to a reign of terror and mass executions fuelled by his violent paranoia.
- So once this court rules, there's nothing left between that person and the execution chamber.
- More humane at least than thumb screws or burning them in public or executions.
- Because they have to do with Socrates trial and his condemnation and his eventual execution.
- And every day, every week, I have to watch cops deciding that it is their option to carry out execution on American citizens.
Examples
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It's late at night six days before my execution, and it's lonely here on death row...
Fiction book (1994) -
In the five years before that decision, no execution had been carried out on an American prisoner.
Academic text (1994) -
But she is glad that she went to watch the execution and she went as a way to remember and honour her mother.
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On the morning of his execution, King Charles I put on two shirts.
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I opposed the planned execution of Ronald Ryan, who had allegedly shot dead a prison border during a jail escape.
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At midnight, they led him into the execution chamber, strapped him up, and pulled the lever.
Fiction book (1999) -
Captives weep as they are led to execution, but one figure rises above the storm of hate and fear.
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On the day of his execution, the prison staff prepared everything according to protocol.
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The public was shocked by the execution of the condemned man, which was carried out despite widespread protests.
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Witnesses described the execution as a somber event, highlighting the gravity of capital punishment.
Synonyms
305
4.1
A legal punishment in which a person is killed for a very serious crime
56
5.2
An official punishment where a court orders someone to be put to death for a crime
48
4.2
The legal killing of someone by the government for a serious crime
1
8.4
Killing a living thing, for example as punishment or to end suffering
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
11
8.9
An official order by a court that temporarily stops a punishment, for example a death sentence
- Formal
1
9.9
A court order that lets an officer take and sell someone's property to pay money ordered by the court
- Formal
The act of signing a legal document so it becomes legally binding
- Offensive
A planned killing of someone at close range in a controlled way
How Violent
- Offensive
14
8.7
- Offensive
25
8.6
361
6.5
- NSFW
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3.0
- NSFW
690
4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Execution meaning putting someone to death comes from ex- ('out') and sequi ('to follow'), originally meaning 'to carry out' a punishment. That's why the act of carrying out a death sentence is called an execution.