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Definition: Execute |
ExecuteVerb1. Extend beyond reasonable limits; "carry too far"; "She carries her ideas to the extreme". 2. Socially sanctioned killing as a means of punishment; "In some states, criminals are executed". 3. Murder execution-style. 4. Bring to execution; "carry out a task"; "carry out the surgery". 5. Carry out the legalities of; "execute a will or a deed". 6. To act or perform an action; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters". 7. Sign in the presence of witnesses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "execute" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Execute execution. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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Capital punishment, also referred to as the Death penalty, is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offence or a capital crime. In those jurisdictions that practice capital punishment, its use is usually restricted to a small number of criminal offences, principally, treason and murder, that is, the deliberate premeditated killing of another person. Prisoners who have been sentenced to death are usually kept segregated from other prisoners in a special part of the prison, pending their execution. In some places this segregated area is known as Death Row.
Methods of execution
Methods of execution have varied over time, and include:
- Lethal injection
- Decapitation (by sword, axe or guillotine) (The term capital punishment derives from the fact that it was originally administered by means of decapitation.)
- Electrocution in an electric chair
- Hanging
- Gassing
- Strangulation
- Drowning
- Burning
- Crucifixion
- Impalement
- Crushing
- Stoning
- Shooting by firing squad
- Disembowelment
- Various animal-related methods
- Tearing apart by horses
- Devouring by wild animals
- Crushing by elephant
Capital punishment around the world
Amnesty International publishes a annual report on official judicial execution. In 2001 there were 3,048 reported cases in 31 countries. 90% of the deaths occurred in four countries. The People's Republic of China carried out 2,468 executions. Iran killed 139 people, Saudi Arabia 79 and the United States 66. In 2000 there had been 1,457 executions. The PRC has executed 20,000 between 1990 and 2001 with 1,781 people executed between April and July 2001 in a "Strike Hard" crime crackdown.
The highest per capita use of the death penalty is Singapore, with a population of about four million.
In most countries that have capital punishment, it is used to punish only murder and/or for war-related crimes. In some countries, like the People's Republic of China, even non-violent crimes, like drug and business related crimes, are punished with capital punishment.
Most democratic countries today have abolished the death penalty, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, almost all of Europe and much of Latin America. Together 111 countries either do not have or do not use the death penalty. Many other states retain it, especially in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Caribbean and the United States.
The most comprehensive source lists less than 15,000 people executed in United States or its predecessors between 1608 and 1991.[1] More accurate statistics list 4661 executions in the U.S. in the period 1930-2002 with about 2/3 of the executions occurring in the first twenty years.[1] Additionally the U.S. Army executed 160 soldiers between 1930 and 1967. The last U.S. Navy execution was in 1849.
Only seven countries practice the death penalty for juveniles, that is criminals aged under 18 at the time of their crime. Nearly all actual executions for juvenile crime take place in the USA, although, due to the slow process of appeals, no one under age 19 has been executed since at least 1964. [1] Although the People's Republic of China accounts for the vast majority of executions in the world, it does not allow for the executions of those under 18. [1] Execution of those aged under age 18 has also occurred in the Congo, Pakistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Iran since 1990. [1]
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which forbids capital punishment for juveniles, has been signed by all countries except the USA and Somalia, so it is likely that legally executing children (as defined by the Convention), will continue to be restricted to the USA.
Electric chair as used for electrocutions. The electric chair was developed in the late 1880s with support from Thomas Edison and is still in use today.
Image in the public domain, courtesy of PDImages.com.There are a number of international conventions prohibiting the death penalty, most notably the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Sixth Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights. However, such conventions only bind those that are party to them; customary international law permits the death penalty.
Several international organizations have made the abolition of the death penalty a requirement of membership, most notably the European Union and the Council of Europe. The European Union requires outright abolition of the death penalty by states wishing to join; the Council of Europe also requires this, but is willing to accept a moratorium as an interim measure. Thus, while Russia is a member of the Council of Europe, and practices the death penalty in law, it has not made use of it since becoming a member of the Council.
The same was also true of Turkey, but in August 2002, as a move towards EU membership, the death penalty was removed from law as well as practice. As a result of this, Europe is a continent free of the death penalty in practice, with the sole exception of Belarus, which is not a member of the Council of Europe. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has also been lobbying for the Council of Europe observer states who practice the death penalty (namely the United States and Japan) to be told to abolish it also or lose their observer status.
Arguments for and against the death penalty
Support for the death penalty varies widely from nation to nation, and it can be a highly contentious political issue, particularly in democracies that use it. A majority of adults in the United States appear to support its continuance (though like most political issues, the numbers vary widely depending on the exact question asked), but a highly vocal, organised minority of people in that country do not, and non-governmental organisations like Amnesty lobby against it globally. In Taiwan, the death penalty appears to have large amounts of public support, and there is little public movement to abolish it. By contrast, in most of Western Europe, public opinion overwhelming regards capital punishment as barbaric and there is little public support for its reinstatement. In countries where it has been abolished, debate is sometimes revived by particularly brutal murders, though few countries have brought it back after abolition.
Some of the major arguments used by those opposed to the death penalty include:
Different groups of death penalty opponents favour different arguments. Core death-penalty opponents are perhaps more likely to primarily base their opposition on "the death penalty is murder" arguments, and advance the issues of wrong convictions and ethnic bias to convince waverers.
- The death penalty is killing. Killing is wrong, therefore the death penalty is wrong.
- This is a human rights violation.
- Torture and cruelty are wrong. Many executions are botched and the executed suffer extended pain in dying, and even those who die instantly suffer extreme mental torture leading up to and during the preliminaries of the execution process.
- Criminal proceedings are fallible. Many people facing the death penalty have been exonerated, sometimes only minutes before their scheduled execution. Others, however, have been executed before evidence clearing them is discovered. Whilst criminal trials not involving the death penalty can involve mistakes, there is at least the opportunity for mistakes to be corrected.
- At least in the United States, poor people and those from ethnic minorities are more likely to be executed than whites convicted of similar crimes. Hence, its application is selective and unfair. Additionally, it is argued that the race of the victim can also affect the likelihood of the application of the death penalty, which again is unfair.
- It can encourage police misconduct as in the incident described in the documentary film The Thin Blue Line. In the late 1970s, an innocent man named Randall Adams was framed by the Dallas County police department in Texas for a notorious murder of a police officer because they knew the more likely suspect, David Harris, was still a minor and thus ineligible for the death penalty so Adams had to serve as a scapegoat to execute.
- It is not a deterent because anyone that would be detered by the death penalty would already have been detered by life in prison, and people that are not detered by that wouldn't be stopped by any punishment.
Key arguments for supporters of the death penalty include:
There is ongoing debate whether capital punishment reduces crime rates, because potential murderers (or other criminals) would be too scared of punishment to commit crime, or it doesn't at all affect crime rate, because potential criminals think they won't be caught, so they don't care about punishment until it's too late. There are even studies that have concluded that the death penalty appears to encourage murder. However, like many questions in the social sciences, actual research data on this question can be (and is) interpreted very differently by people with differing predispositions towards capital punishment. In any event, the actual effectiveness or otherwise of it is largely irrelevant to many who feel strongly about the debate, as their views are based on other factors.
- That people committing the most heinous crimes (usually murder, in Western countries that practice the death penalty) have forfeited the right to life so executing them is not murder.
- Government is not an individual and is given far more powers; therefore, executions are not "murder."
- Since the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, a murderer is likely to murder again, so execution prevents future murders.
- That it provides peace of minds for victims of crime and their families.
- Beliefs in reciprocity - essentially, "an eye for an eye" - which is part of the concept of justice for many people.
- That it is in fact less cruel than prolonged sentences of imprisonment, especially under the conditions that would be popularly demanded for heinous criminals.
- That it is explicitly allowed in constitutions and other documents of basic law.
- That it enjoys democratic support of the people.
- That it deters crime.
Religious views of the death penalty
Death penalty in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible, Old Testament)
The Tanakh prescribes the death penalty for a great many violations of law. Most historians no longer accept the view that the laws of the Bible, as written, were ever actually followed as a legal code. Instead, they hold that the laws in the Bible were developed in a living society and culture, and that the oral law of this society was not identical to what one would posit from a literal reading of the Biblical text alone. Rabbinic Jews have always held this view; they go further and teach that a specific oral law (later redacted in the Talmud) explains the meaning and context of these Biblical laws. In this view the death penalty was rarely used, and exceedingly difficult to carry out.
Jewish view of the death penalty
The Jewish view of all laws in the Bible, not just the death penalty, is based on the reading of the Bible as seen through Judaism's corpus of oral law. These laws were first redacted around 200 CE in the Mishnah and later around 550 CE in the Talmud.
These laws make it clear that the death penalty was only used in extremely rare cases. Rabbinic law developed a detailed system of checks and balances to make sure that the penalty could only be carried out if there were two witnesses to the crime, if the witnesses then verbally warned the person that they were liable for the death penalty, and that the person then had to acknowledge that he/she was warned, but then went ahead and committed the sin regardless. Further, an individual was not allowed to testify against themselves. As such, the death penalty was effectively legislated out of existence.
Christian view of the death penalty
Jesus Christ underwent the death penalty by crucifixion. His trial was affected by popular opinion. His death is frequently depicted in religious art, and the cross, either with or without his body on it, is the primary symbol of Christianity.
For many Christians, this is enough to condemn capital punishment. Nonetheless, Christians are divided about the issue. Those in favor of capital punishment most often build their views on a New Testament verse in which Christ allegedly advocates capital punishment for crimes against children.
Muslim view of the death penalty
A Muslim may be sentenced to death under Shariah, Islamic law, for the murder of a Muslim, adultery, apostasy (deserting Islam), a third conviction for drinking alcohol and a fifth conviction for theft. A dhimmi (zimmi, non-Muslim living in an Islamic state) can be executed for sex with a Muslim woman, and "persecution" of Islam, for example blasphemy against Allah or Prophet Muhammad, or attempting to proselytise, i.e. convert a Muslim from his religion.
Shariah is not in force in many Muslim countries with a Muslim majority, especially those which still have laws on their statute books which date from their colonial past. One of the aims of Islamic fundamentalists is to re-introduce Shariat and that is one reason why HRAIC opposes fundamentalism.
Hindu view of the death penalty
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Related articles
- Use of death penalty worldwide provides a full listing of which countries have and have not abolished the death penalty.
- List of people who were executed
- Life imprisonment
- Amnesty International
- Capital punishment in the United Kingdom
Literature
Stuart Banner: The Death Penalty: An American History. Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN 0674007514.
David R. Dow, Mark Dow (Eds.): Machinery of Death. The Reality of America's Death Penalty Regime. Routledge, New York, 2002. ISBN 0415932661 (cloth), ISBN 041593267X (paper).
- This book provides critical perspectives on the death penalty. It contains a foreword by Christopher Hitchens.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Capital punishment."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Execution is the act of putting a person to death, with or (more often) without judicial process.Military executions are typically by firing squad (for violations of orders in wartime or the laws of war) or by hanging (typically for cowardice, or commission of atrocities or other crimes).
See also:
- capital punishment
- Use of death penalty worldwide
- List of people who were executed
- murder
- execution warrant
- laws of war
Execution is the process by which a computer carries out instructions of a computer program.
In management, execution is the aspect of management effectiveness whereby managers see that their plans are carried out by the members of the organization.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Execution."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| EX | English | Execute | Computing |
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Synonyms: ExecuteSynonyms: accomplish (v), carry (v), carry out (v), carry through (v), do (v), fulfil (v), fulfill (v), perform (v), put to death (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Action | Verb: do, perform, execute; achieve; (complete); transact, enact; commit, perpetrate, inflict; exercise, prosecute, carry on, work, practice, play. |
Completion | Do, execute, make; go through, get through; work out, enact; bring about, bring to bear, bring to pass, bring through, bring to a head. |
Conduct | Verb: transact, execute; despatch, dispatch; proceed with, discharge; carry on, carry through, carry out, carry into effect, put into effect; work out; go through, get through; enact; put into practice; do; officiate. |
Observance | Verb: observe, comply with, respect, acknowledge, abide by; cling to, adhere to, be faithful to, act up to; meet, fulfill; carry out, carry into execution; execute, perform, keep, satisfy, discharge; do one's office. |
Punishment | Execute; bring to the block, bring to the gallows; behead, decapitate, guillotine; decollate; hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter; shoot; decimate; burn; break on the wheel, crucify; empale, impale; flay; lynch; electrocute; gas, send to the gas chamber. |
Security | Execute, stamp; sign, seal; (evidence). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And I'll try him, convict him, and execute him. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price) Execute them (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure; writing credit: Chris Matheson; Ed Solomon) Then maybe we need to execute a few hostages (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) So, how shall we execute you, Mr. Bond (GoldenEye; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Michael France) Klytus! Are your men on the right pills? Maybe you should execute their trainer (Flash Gordon; writing credit: Michael Allin; Alex Raymond) | |
Clever | Don't kill the dream… Execute it! (references; author: unknown) | |
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 | Figure 3. H. Fol and E. Sarasin photometer, 1885 model. From top to bottom - Device closed; device open; the surface float. This model was designed to fix the weak point of the preceding model that was not able to execute a sole measurement at a given depth. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | 'Rockets' execute mission over skies of Iraq. |
 | East elevation; section. Measured drawing delineated by Judith E. Collins, 1989. (Reproduction Number: HABS, NC-357, sheet 2 of 13) Since December 1870 this black-and-white-striped lighthouse has been helping mariners make their way through the Diamond Shoals off the North Carolina coast. At 208 feet, it is the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States. In 1999, the National Park Service moved the lighthouse 2,900 feet inland to a new site in an effort to keep it from toppling into the Atlantic Ocean. The controversial relocation project took twenty-three days to execute. The light was reactivated on November 13, 1999. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | I will faithfully execute the office --. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Christian Nevell Bovee | The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. |
Edward Gibbon | A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. |
William James | It is nice to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by "circumstances beyond your control" from ever trying to execute them. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | It cannot be supposed that they should intend, had they a power so to do, to give to any one, or more, an absolute arbitrary power over their persons and estates, and put a force into the magistrate's hand to execute his unlimited will arbitrarily upon them. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 8: Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Section. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | The conclusion from this reasoning is, that where the heads of departments are the political or confidential agents of the executive, merely to execute the will of the President, or rather to act in cases in which the executive possesses a constitutional or legal discretion, nothing can be more perfectly clear than that their acts are only politically examinable. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Subject to the obligation to comply with the provisions of the Convention of Mannheim or of the Convention which may be substituted therefor, and to the stipulations of the present Treaty, France shall have on the whole course of the Rhine included between the two extreme points of the French frontiers: (a) the right to take water from the Rhine to feed navigation and irrigation canals (constructed or to be constructed) or for any other purpose, and to execute on the German bank all works necessary for the exercise of this right; (b) the exclusive right to the power derived from works of regulation on the river, subject to the payment to Germany of the value of half the power actually produced, this payment, which will take into account the cost of the works necessary for producing the power, being made either in money or in power and in default of agreement being determined by arbitration. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Apraxia is a neurological disorder characterized by loss of the ability to execute or carry out learned (familiar) movements, despite having the desire and the physical ability to perform the movements. (references) | |
Business | Therefore, third party organizations are used to execute a purchase. (references) | |
Foreign firms can grant permission to the local company to execute contracts, if desired. (references) | ||
The Building Law gives an architect the right to execute his/her rights as far as the execution of the design is concerned. (references) | ||
Children | Dominican Republic | In the National District, the Department of Family and Children, in the Office of the Prosecutor, administers the Minor's Code and arranges conciliation of family conflicts to execute court decisions with respect to child protection, and to interview children whose rights have been violated. (references) |
Economic History | Mexico | If desired, U.S. firms can grant permission to the local company to execute contracts. (references) |
Australia | Legal expertise is needed to execute legal documentation, interpret laws and regulations, and ameliorate disputes. (references) | |
Human Rights | Somalia | Unlike in the previous year, Islamic courts did not execute summarily any persons during the year. (references) |
Ukraine | In 1999 the State Executive Service was established as a special department in the Ministry of Justice to execute court decisions. (references) | |
Cambodia | In some cases, the authorities failed to execute summonses or search warrants against suspects believed to be protected by the military. (references) | |
Minorities | Pakistan | The perpetrators allegedly bribed the police not to investigate, and even though the girl was ordered returned to her parents, the police did not execute this order. (references) |
Political Economy | Congo | The military courts did not execute any civilians during the year; however, due process frequently was disregarded. (references) |
Iraq | The Government continued to execute summarily alleged political opponents and leaders in the Shi'a religious community. (references) | |
Trade | Chad | Chadians and foreigners can execute transactions through the major banks, the Central Bank and the postal administration. (references) |
Zimbabwe | Export-specific facilities included pre-shipment export financing and approved bank advances for working capital needed to execute an export order. (references) | |
Colombia | If the Colombian bank agrees to extend the purchaser credit, it will execute a transaction utilizing the credit facility it has with a participating U.S. bank. (references) | |
Travel | Honduras | This letter must describe the type of job or specialized work that the foreign employee will execute. (references) |
Women | Swaziland | Women routinely execute contracts and enter into a variety of transactions in their own names. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect. Following is an extract from an old book entitled, The Lunarian Astonished -- Pfeiffer & Co., Boston, 1803: LUNARIAN: Then when your Congress has passed a law it goes directly to the Supreme Court in order that it may at once be known whether it is constitutional? TERRESTRIAN: O no; it does not require the approval of the Supreme Court until having perhaps been enforced for many years somebody objects to its operation against himself -- I mean his client. The President, if he approves it, begins to execute it at once. LUNARIAN: Ah, the executive power is a part of the legislative. Do your policemen also have to approve the local ordinances that they enforce? TERRESTRIAN: Not yet -- at least not in their character of constables. Generally speaking, though, all laws require the approval of those whom they are intended to restrain. LUNARIAN: I see. The death warrant is not valid until signed by the murderer. TERRESTRIAN: My friend, you put it too strongly; we are not so consistent. LUNARIAN: But this system of maintaining an expensive judicial machinery to pass upon the validity of laws only after they have long been executed, and then only when brought before the court by some private person -- does it not cause great confusion? TERRESTRIAN: It does. LUNARIAN: Why then should not your laws, previously to being executed, be validated, not by the signature of your President, but by that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? TERRESTRIAN: There is no precedent for any such course. LUNARIAN: Precedent. What is that? TERRESTRIAN: It has been defined by five hundred lawyers in three volumes each. So how can any one know? |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Fellow Citizens, I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate. |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | As to myself, it is my anxious desire so to execute the trust reposed in me as to render the people of the United States prosperous and happy. |
Zachary Taylor | 1849-1850 | With such aids and an honest purpose to do whatever is right, I hope to execute diligently, impartially, and for the best interests of the country the manifold duties devolved upon me. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | The duty to obey and to execute embraces the Constitution in its entirety and the whole code of laws enacted under it. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | I have been selected by you to execute and enforce the laws of the country. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | In recent years, under the stress of the Vietnam war, legislative restrictions on the President's ability to execute foreign policy and military decisions have proliferated. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will make the world a little better for your having been here. |
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| "Execute" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 81.20% of the time. "Execute" is used about 383 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 81.2% | 311 | 16,365 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.36% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.44% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 383 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "execute": execute a contract ♦ execute a project ♦ execute by firing squad ♦ execute cycle. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "execute": non-execute, re-execute. | |
Containing "execute": fetch-execute cycle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "execute"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ekzekutoj (perform), zbatoj (act, apply, apply to, carry out, carry through, dispense, effectuate, enforce, follow, obey, observe, practise, realize), realizoj (achieve, actualize, attain, fulfil, pull off, realize), përmbush (accomplish, consummate, fill, fulfil, fulfill, gratify, perform), kryej (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, carry through, commit, despatch, discharge, dispatch, do, effect, effectuate, face it out, fill, fulfil, fulfill, perfect, perform, process, prosecute, put through, wage). (various references) | |
Arabic | مارس (carry out, engage in, exercise, fulfil, fulfill, march, operate, perform, practice, pursue, set one's hand to), نفذ (act, activate, be executed, carry into effect, carry out, come true, commit, computerize, do, effect, effectuate, enforce, fill, fulfil, fulfill, honor, honour, implement, invoke, penetrate, percolate, perform, permeate, petering, pierce, practise, proceed, pursue, put into effect, realize, transfix, traverse), نجز (accomplish, achieve, be executed, compass, complete, do, encompass, finalize, finish, fulfil, fulfill, gain, get hold of, get on, implement, negotiate, perfect, perform, polish off, pull off, put across, realize), قضى (accomplish, carry out, decree, foreordain, ordain, pay, predestine, preordain, require, settle, spend), عزف (fiddle, lute, perform, pick, play, play away, render, set a piano, strike), جرى ما هو ضرورى, جرى (carry out, float, flow, occur, precipitate, roll, run, scat, take place, transact), أعدم (be executed, despatch, dispatch, guillotine, hang out, put to death, shoot, string up, swing), أدى (bring, bring about, conduct, do, fulfil, fulfill, function, give rise to, go, perform, put on, result). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | регламентирам, екзекутирам, прилагам (adjoin, administer, apply, attach, bestow, carry out, enclose, enforce, join, practice, practise, pursue, put through, subjoin), извършвам (achieve, act, bring about, effect, perform, pull, put through, transact, turn off), изпълнявам (accomplish, accord, act up to, carry into effect, carry out, complete, effectuate, exercise, fill, fulfil, fulfill, handle, implement, make up, perform, play, practise, pursue, put into effect, put through, redeem, satisfy, verify). (various references) | |
Chinese | 處決 , 誅 (punish), 執 (grasp), 措 (administer, arrange, put in order, take action on), 执行 (Administer, Administered, Administering, Enforcement, Executed, Executing, PERFORM, Performed, Performing). (various references) | |
Czech | vykonat (accomplish, carry out, discharge, effectuate, implement, mete out, perform, push through, render), vyřídit (bowl over, carry out, catch out, convey, deal with, transact, transmit), uskuteènit (carry into effect, carry out, effect, go through with, implement, make good, realize, substantiate), provést (accomplish, carry out, effect, exercise, finish, make, perform, realize, render, ride out, see it through, show, undertake), popravit (poleaxe, put to death), předvést (demonstrate, do, present, produce, trot out), přednést (perform, refer, report, state). (various references) | |
Danish | udførselscykel (execute cycle, execution cycle), udførelsescyklus (execute cycle, execution cycle), udføre (introduce, offer, perform, present, tender), operationscyklus (execute cycle, execution cycle). (various references) | |
Dutch | ter dood brengen, executeren. (various references) | |
Esperanto | ekzekuti. (various references) | |
Faeroese | taka av døgum, avrætta. (various references) | |
Farsi | نمایش دادن (Act, Display, Enact, Exhibit, Expose, Perform, Represent), نواختن (Sound), قانونی کردن (Legalize, Legtimize, Validate), اعدام کردن (Administer), اجراکردن (Administer, Apply, Effect, Enforce, Exert, Perform), اداره کردن (Address, Administer, Chairman, Conduct, Direct, Engineer, Keep, Man, Manage, Manipulate, Moderate, Officiate, Operate, Rule, Run, Wield). (various references) | |
Finnish | esittää (deliver, express, extend, give, introduce, introduce to, offer, present, produce, put forward, refer, render, set forth, show, state, tender), toimeenpanna (arrange, carry out, make), teloittaa, tehdä (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, cause, commit, do, draw up, get, make, perform), täyttää (carry out, fill, fill in, fulfil, fulfill, stop, stuff, up), suoritusvaihe (execute cycle, execution cycle), suorittaa (carry out, carry through, defray, do, effect, make, pass, pay, perform, settle, solve), panna toimeen (carry out, effect, put into effect), panna täytäntöön (carry into effect). (various references) | |
French | exécuter. (various references) | |
German | vollstrecken (carry out, enforce), unterzeichnen (endorse, initial, sign, signing, subscribe, to sign, to subscribe, undersign), hinrichten (electrocute, to electrocute, to put to death), durchführen (accomplish, carry out, conduct, develop, enforce, go through, hold, implement, instrument, lay through, lead through, prosecute, pursue, put through, realize, run, run through, take, take through, to effect, to realize, transact, undertake). (various references) | |
Greek | εκτελώ (carry out, do, enact, implement, perform, put through, transact, wreak). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לממש (actualize, effect, realize), לעשות (accomplish, act, create, do, fulfill, labour, make, manage, produce, work), ל"וציא לפועל (accomplish, carry into effect, effectuate, implement, manage, perform, put into effect, put into practice), ל"וציא ל"ור' (martyr, put to death), ל'שם (carry out, realize), לבצע (achieve, act, carry out, commit, do, drive, perform, render), ביצע (carry out). (various references) | |
Hungarian | végrehajt (accomplish, carry out, effect, enforce, fulfil, fulfill, implement, perform, prosecute, pull off, realize, to accomplish, to bring into effect, to bring to effect, to carry out, to consummate, to effect, to effectuate, to execute, to fulfil, to implement, to perform, to realize, work out), megvalósít (accomplish, achieve, actualize, attain, effect, effectuate, implement, materialize, put into effect, put into practice, realize, to attain, to bring into effect, to bring to effect, to bring to fruition, to effect, to effectuate, to flesh out, to make good, to materialize, to realise, to realize, to work out), kivégez (liquidate, put to death, to execute, to liquidate, to put to death, to put to the block). (various references) | |
Indonesian | eksekusi (carrying out, execution), mengemban (carry out), kelola (carry out, manage). (various references) | |
Italian | eseguire (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, do, fulfil, fulfill, give, keep, observe, perform), esecuzione (despatch, dispatch, execution, fulfillment, fulfilment, performance, rendering), mettere in esecuzione, mettere in atto (play out), interpretare (accept, construe, interpret, play, portray, read, render, translate, understand), giustiziare, fare (achieve, act, be, build, carry out, construct, do, fashion, get, go in for, have, kind, make, manner, perform, produce, put in, shall, should, sort, species, to do, to make, type), ciclo di esecuzione (execute cycle, execution cycle). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 銃刑 (execute by shooting to death), 実行権 (right to execute). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | じっ"うけ" (right to execute), じゅうけい (cousin, execute by shooting to death, heavy sentence). (various references) | |
Korean | 수행하십시" (Prosecute). (various references) | |
Manx | pooar gioal, jannoo (accomplish, accomplishment, act, build, cast, coalesce, commit, committal, compose, conferment, conformation, construct, construction, create, deal, deed, do, effect, fabricate, fashion, fend, fill, follow out, formation, goings on, keep, make, manufacture, perform, performance, performing, perpetrate, perpetration, persuance, practise, produce, production, render; doing, structure, style, transact, transaction, transactions), cur gy baase (exterminate, extermination, slaughter, slay), cooilleeney (achieve, achievement, acquit, acquittal, avenge, compensate, compensation, consummate, consummation, fulfil, fulfilment, punishment, satisfaction, satisfy, vengeance). (various references) | |
Norwegian | effektuere, utføre (do), henrette, fullbyrde. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | executeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | executar (achieve, carry out, consummate, despatch, dispatch, effect, fulfil, fulfill, implement, obey, paint, perform). (various references) | |
Romanian | executa (accomplish, carry out, cut, do, effect, fill, fulfil, interpret, perform, prepare, submit, work). (various references) | |
Russian | казнить (do to death, gibbet, put death, put to death), выполнять казнить, выполнять (accomplish, achieve, carry out, do, effect, fulfil, fulfill, honor, honour, outputs, perform, performed, put through, redeem, satisfy, transact), оформлять (formalize, take out), исполнять (answer, comply, do, fill, fulfil, fulfill, perform, verify). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pogubiti (despatch, dispatch, put to death), izvršiti (accomplish, carry out, carry through, commit, implement, perform, perpetrate). (various references) | |
Spanish | ejecutar (accomplish, carry through, discharge, enforce, implement, knock off, live up, perform, run), realizar (accomplish, achieve, act out, actualize, answer, attain, bring into being, bring off, carry into effect, carry out, carry through, do, enable, enforce, fulfil, fulfill, implement, level, perform, produce, realize, tackle, take on), otorgar (accord, adjudge, award, bestow, confer, give, grant), llevar a cabo (accomplish, achieve, bring off, bring to pass, carry out, carry through, come, effect, go through with, implement, make good, prosecute, pull through, push through, put through, realize, see it through, see out, see through, top off, transact), cumplir (accomplish, become, carry out, comply, discharge, do, fulfil, fulfill, keep, make good, obey, observe, perform, redeem, satisfy, serve, stand by), ciclo de ejecución (execute cycle, execution cycle), ajusticiar. (various references) | |
Swedish | verkställa, uträtta (do, expedite), avrätta (kill, liquidate, slay). (various references) | |
Thai | บังคับตามกฎหมาย, ประหารชีวิต, "ำเนินการ (exercise, move, roll). (various references) | |
Turkish | yerine getirmek (accomplish, acquit oneself, answer, carry through, complete, discharge, fulfil, fulfill, implement, make good, meet, observe, perform, put in force, redeem, satisfy, serve, settle, stick to), yapmak (accomplish, achieve, acquit oneself, act, architect, build, carry out, carve out, contrive, create, do, engineer, establish, fashion, father, fulfil, fulfill, get, go over, go through, have, implement, land, make, perform, perpetrate, ply, practice, practise, produce, profess, put on, put through, set, take, transact, turn out, weave), sergilemek (display, display of smth., emcee, exhibit, expose, flourish, set out, shew, show), ortaya koymak (exhibit, introduce, present, produce, propound, prove, put forth, set forth), infaz etmek (enforce, put in force), idam etmek (dispatch, gibbet, put to death), gerçekleştirmek (achieve, actualize, carry out, carry through, effect, effectuate, follow out, follow through, make real, materialize, practice, practise, put into practice, realize, substantiate, verify), düzenlemek (arrange, calendar, collocate, compose, construct, coordinate, dispose, do, do out, draw, draw up, engineer, fix up, forge, form, frame, get things square, get up, give, grade, lay out, line up, methodize, Mount, order, organize, promote, put up, regularize, regulate, scheme, set, set out, shape, stage, string, whack up, work up). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | страчувати (put to death), виконувати (administer, administrate, answer, carry out, comply, dispense, do, effect, effectuate, fulfil, full, implement, obey, perform, play, put into effect, render, solve, tender), здійснювати (actualize, bring to pass, compass, effect, effectuate, embody, exercise, implement, make, materialize, perpetrate, practise, put into practice, realize, wage). (various references) | |
Welsh | dienyddio (put to death). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | carnificem, effecta, effecti, effectum, effectus, efficeremur, effici, efficiamini, efficiamur, efficiar, efficiaris, efficiebatur, efficiemus, efficientur, efficiet, efficietur, efficimini, efficit, efficitur, executor, exsecuti, exsecutores, functique, functus, fungantur, fungaris, fungatur, fungebantur, fungebatur, fungens, fungerentur, fungeretur, fungi, fungimur, fungor, fungor, fungi, functus, fungor; fungi; functus, perfecerunt, perfecisset, perfecisti, perfecit, perfecta, perfectae, perfectam, perfectas, perfecte, perfecti, perfectis, perfectius, perfecto, perfectorum, perfectos, perfectum, perfectumque, perfectus, perfice, perficere, perficiam, perficiat, perficiatur, perficiebat, perficiendi, perficiens, perficient, perficientur, perficiet, perficio, perficit, perficite, perficitis, perficitur, perficiunt. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 5, Verse 27 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai exousian edwken autw kai krisin poiein oti uioV anqrwpou estin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et potestatem dedit ei et iudicium facere quia Filius hominis est |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & sealde him anweald þt he mostedemen. for-þam þe he ys mannes sune. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he yaf to hym power to make doom, for he is mannys sone. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And hath geven him power also to iudge in that he is the sonne of man. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he has given him authority to be judge because he is the Son of man. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | John Chapter 5, Verse 27 |
| Cebuano | ug gihatagan niya siyag kagahum sa pagpanghukom tungod kay siya Anak man sa Tawo. |
| Croatian | i ovlasti ga da sudi jer je Sin Èovjeèji. |
| Danish | Og han har givet ham Magt til at holde Dom, efterdi han er Menneskesøn. |
| Dutch | En heeft Hem macht gegeven, ook gericht te houden, omdat Hij des mensen Zoon is. |
| Finnish | Ja hän on antanut hänelle vallan tuomita, koska hän on Ihmisen Poika. |
| French | Et il lui a donné le pouvoir de juger, parce qu`il est Fils de l`homme. |
| German | und hat ihm Macht gegeben, auch das Gericht zu halten, darum daß er des Menschen Sohn ist. |
| Haitian Creole | Li bay Pitit la otorite pou jije, paske Pitit la, se Moun Bondye voye nan lachè a. |
| Hungarian | És hatalmat ada néki az ítélettételre is, mivelhogy embernek fia. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia telah memberikan kepada Anak-Nya hak untuk menghakimi, sebab Ia Anak Manusia. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan lagi diberi-Nya kuasa kepada-Nya akan melakukan hukuman, sebab Ia itulah Anak manusia adanya. |
| Italian | e gli ha dato il potere di giudicare, perché è Figlio dell'uomo. |
| Korean | 또 인 자 됨 을 인 하 여 심 판 하 " 권 세 를 주 셨 느 니 라 |
| Maori | A kua homai ano ki a ia he tikanga mo te whakawa, no te mea ko ia te Tama a te tangata. |
| Norwegian | og han har gitt ham makt til å holde dom, fordi han er en menneskesønn. |
| Portuguese | e deu-lhe autoridade para julgar, porque é o Filho do homem. |
| Rumanian | Wi I -a dat putere sq judece, kntruckt este Fiu al omului. |
| Shuar | Nu arantcha wi Aents Ajasu asamtai, shuaran Súmamtikiatniun surusuiti. |
| Spanish | Y también le dio autoridad para hacer juicio, porque él es el Hijo del Hombre. |
| Swahili | Tena amempa mamlaka ya kuhukumu kwa sababu yeye ni Mwana wa Mtu. |
| Swedish | Och han har givit honom makt att hålla dom, eftersom han är Människoson. |
| Uma | Nawai' wo'o-a kuasa mpobotuhi kara-kara manusia', apa' Aku' Ana' Manusia'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "execute": executed, executer, executers, executes. (additional references) | |
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"Execute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exacute, excute, execate, execture, execu, execuse, execut, executi, exercite, Senectute. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "execute" (pronounced e"ksukyuw't) |
| 6 | -s u k y uw' t | persecute, prosecute. |
| 5 | -u k y uw' t | electrocute. |
| 3 | -y uw' t | attribute, Malamute, telecommute. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-t-u-x" | |
-3 letters: cete, cute, exec. | |
-4 letters: cee, cue, cut, ecu, tee, tux. | |
-5 letters: et, ex, ut, xu. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-t-u-x" | |
+1 letter: executed, executer, executes. | |
+2 letters: executers, executive. | |
+3 letters: executable, executives, unexpected. | |
+4 letters: executables, executioner, executrices, executrixes. | |
+5 letters: executioners, nonexecutive, unexpectedly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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