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Execution is the act of putting a person to death, in execution of a judicial sentence of death, which is also known as capital punishment.

Execution may also refer to:

Society

• A term for contract killings
• Extrajudicial killing, the killing of a person by governmental authorities without the sanction of any judicial proceeding or legal process
• Summary execution, the act of killing a person who is accused of a crime without benefit of a full and fair trial
• A writ of execution, ordering the enforcement of a judgment, typically by seizing and selling goods to satisfy a judgment debt

Technology

• Execution (computing), the process in which a computer carries out instructions of a computer program

Media and art

• Execution (novel), a 1958 fictional work by the Canadian author and war veteran Colin McDougall
• Execution (painting), a 1995 Chinese art painting
• "Execution" (The Twilight Zone), season 1 episode 26 of The Twilight Zone in 1960
• Execution (1968 film), a 1968 Italian film
• Execution, also known as Stark Raving Mad, a 1981 American film
• Execution (album), an album by Tribuzy
• Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, a 2002 business book by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan

See also

• Execute (disambiguation)
• The Execution (disambiguation)

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