verb transitive To cause to become legally valid; as, to execute a contract . verb transitive, computing To start, launch or run ; as, to execute a program .

Some common synonyms of execute are accomplish, achieve, discharge, effect, fulfill, and perform.

1 : to carry out fully : put completely into effect execute a command. 2 : to do what is provided or required by execute a decree. 3 : to put to death especially in compliance with a legal sentence.

Executed sentence example

1. It’s done and was executed between her and me.
2. In September 1791, Roland’s mission being executed , they returned to Lyons.

verb (used with object), ex·e·cut·ed, ex·e·cut·ing. to carry out; accomplish: to execute a plan or order. to perform or do: to execute a maneuver; to execute a gymnastic feat. to inflict capital punishment on; put to death according to law.

noun. noun. /ˌɛksəˈkyuʃn/ 1[uncountable, countable] the act of killing someone, especially as a legal punishment He faced execution by hanging for murder.

Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary 1) To finish, carry out, or perform as required, as in fulfilling one’s obligations under a contract, plan, or court order. 2) To complete and otherwise make valid a document, such as a will, deed, or contract, for example by signing it and having it notarized.

executioner. noun. someone whose job is to execute criminals.

For the condemned, the blindfold allows them not to see the people who are killing them and provides them with a last moment of security (if you can’t see the firing party, perhaps it isn’t happening) even as they are about to die.

Four years later, the Supreme Court overturned its previous ruling, and in 1976, capital punishment was again legalized in the United States. As of 2021, three states have laws that specify hanging as an available secondary method of execution.

If the person being executed were not already completely unconscious, the injection of a highly concentrated solution of potassium chloride could cause severe pain at the site of the IV line, as well as along the punctured vein; it interrupts the electrical activity of the heart muscle and causes it to stop beating.

Deceased (1956–2020)

Seventeen prisoners were executed in the United States in 2020. Five states and the Federal Government carried out executions. An unexpected error occurred.

Death row inmates. Although no law specifically forbids death row inmates from donating organs postmortem, as of 2013 all requests by death row inmates to donate their organs after execution have been denied by states.

No religion forbid this practice. Directed organ donation to people of the same religion has been proposed only by some Orthodox Jews and some Islamic Ulemas/Muftis. Only some Muslim Ulemas/Muftis and some Asian religions may prefer living donation over cadaveric donation.

Organ donation is now the default choice. Donation is now the default, and if a person wishes not to donate, they must say so. Californians register their choice with the California Department of Motor Vehicles, which may indicate it on their driver’s license or ID card.

Given appropriate screening, no medical reason renders death row inmates unsuitable as organ donors. Thus, there is no logical reason why condemned prisoners, after execution, cannot donate usable organs. Death row inmates willingly request it, the general public supports it, and potential recipients accept it.

Ethics Committee Position Statement Punitive attitudes that completely exclude those convicted of crimes from receiving medical treatment, including an organ transplant are not ethically legitimate.

Life support is used to keep blood flowing to the organs until they are removed. He said electrocution or lethal injection would injure the organs. Plus, the organs would have to be removed within five minutes to remain viable, which is not enough time to complete the formalities legally required in an execution.

Properly assembled, or tainted, this chemical will likely burn on injection. This burning is not trivial, and the burning occurs inside of the body as well as in the vein that first encounters the pentobarbital. Autopsies of executed inmates show internal organ damage unseen by witnesses.

In the United States, most states give the meal a day or two before execution and use the euphemism “special meal”. Alcohol or tobacco are usually, but not always, denied. In Louisiana, the prison warden traditionally joins the condemned prisoner for the last meal.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor argued in Arthur v. Dunn (2017): “In addition to being near instant, death by shooting may also be comparatively painless. […] And historically, the firing squad has yielded significantly fewer botched executions.”

A prison cemetery is a graveyard reserved for the dead bodies of prisoners. Generally, the remains of inmates who are not claimed by family or friends are interred in prison cemeteries and include convicts executed for capital crimes.

In most cases, a witness room is located adjacent to an execution chamber, where witnesses may watch the execution through glass windows. All except for one of the states which allow capital punishment are equipped with a death chamber, but many states rarely put them to use.

Usually the funerals at the cemetery are held on Thursdays. In order to allow families of executed prisoners to make a single trip to Huntsville instead of two separate trips, the burial of an executed prisoner not claimed by the family is usually done the day after his or her execution.

Scheduling the time of death for 12:01 AM gives the state as much time as possible to deal with last-minute legal appeals and temporary stays, which have a way of eating up numerous hours.

In the United States, prisoners may wait many years before execution can be carried out due to the complex and time-consuming appeals procedures mandated in the jurisdiction. Nearly a quarter of inmates on death row in the U.S. die of natural causes while awaiting execution.