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
- The term also refers to execution-style murder
- 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
- Executions, a controversial video by Barrie Goulding
- "Execution" (The Twilight Zone), a 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone
- Execution (1968 film), a 1968 Italian film
- Execution, also known as Stark Raving Mad, a 1983 American film
- The Execution (1985 film), a 1985 American TV 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)