execution synonyms

execution

n.

  1. The carrying out of instructions or plans

    fulfilling, accomplishment, doing; see achievement 1, 2, performance 1.

  2. Death by official order

    capital punishment, killing, electrocution, hanging, gassing, lethal injection, beheading, decapitation, guillotining, strangulation, contract killing, strangling, crucifixion, martyrdom, impalement, shooting, burning at the stake, death penalty, ultimate penalty, electric chair, firing squad, the gallows, the rope, the block, the chair*, the ax*.

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