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noun killing sb as an official punishment ADJ. public | mass | judicial | extrajudicial | summary | political | mock VERB + EXECUTION order The tribunal ordered the execution of 42 coup plotters. | carry out Executions were carried out in the prison yard. | face If caught, the men could face execution. | await prisoners who are on death row awaiting execution | suffer (formal) She was taken prisoner and suffered eventual execution. | attend, watch, witness EXECUTION + VERB take place A bell was tolled when executions took place. PREP. ~ by execution by hanging PHRASES a stay of execution (= a delay in an execution being carried out) The judge had granted a stay of execution. carrying out a plan/order ADJ. successful the successful execution of the contract VERB + EXECUTION stay, suspend The court has discretion to stay or suspend execution of the order. PHRASES the execution of your duty She was charged with obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty. | a stay of execution (= a delay in an order being carried out)
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execution
verbs
carry out an execution
• The order to carry out his execution was sent to the prison.
hold an execution
(= carry one out )
• The executions will be held later today.
face execution
(= be due to be killed )
• He is facing execution after being found guilty of murdering three women.
await execution
(= wait to be killed )
• The convicted men were moved to Virginia Penitentiary to await execution.
an execution takes place
(= it happens )
• In Elizabethan times, the execution of traitors took place on Tower Hill.
adjectives
a public execution
(= in a public place. with people watching )
• Bethea's hanging on August 14, 1936 was the last public execution in America.
a mock execution
(= one in which people pretend they are going to kill someone )
• He had to endure torture and a mock execution.
summary execution
(= one that is done immediately, without a trial or any legal process )
• Protestors face summary execution.
a mass execution
(= one in which many people are killed at the same time )
• Eleven convicted murderers were hanged in what was the country's biggest ever mass execution.
phrases
a stay of execution
(= the official stopping or delay of an execution )
• He was granted a stay of execution by the Supreme Court.
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