Execution, in

capital punishment Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence (law), sentence ordering that an offender b ...

, is the act of carrying out a death sentence. Execute may also refer to: * Execution (computing), the running of a computer program * ''Execute'' (album), a 2001 Garage hip-hop album by Oxide & Neutrino * USS ''Execute'' (AM-232), an ''Admirable''-class minesweeper *"Execute", the first track on Slipknot's 2008 album '' All Hope Is Gone''

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