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execution 1. the carrying out or undergoing of a sentence of death 2. a. the enforcement of the judgment of a court of law b. the writ ordering such enforcement Execution Exile (See BANISHMENT.) Budd, Billy court-martialed and hanged for accidently killing a ship’s officer. [Am. Lit.: Herman Melville Billy Budd] final favor granted one about to die. [Pop. Cult.: Misc.] hanged by his regiment for shooting a comrade. [Br. Lit.: Kipling Danny Deever in Benét, 549] famous hangman; eponym of modern hoisting apparatus. [Br. Hist.: Espy, 170] dispatches priests of Nob under Saul’s order. [O.T.: I Samuel 22:18–19] her hanging is triumphantly watched from a tower by Frollo, who is thereupon thrown from it by Quasimodo. [Fr. Lit.: Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre Dame]
invented during French Revolution as a humane method of capital punishment. [Fr. Hist.: Benét, 429] characteristic knot for death by hanging. [Pop. Cult.: Misc.] appointed by the Mikado as Lord High Executioner. [Br. Opera: The Mikado] nickname for ordinary hangman at Tyburn gallows. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1110] swaggering highwayman sentenced to execution but reprieved at the last moment. [Br. Lit.: The Beggar’s Opera in Magill I, 59; The Threepenny Opera in Benét, 90] executed in 1867; subject of painting by Manet. [Mex. Hist.: NCE, 1728; Fr. Art: EB, 11:440] reformer priest, hanged and burned at the stake as a heretic. [Ital. Hist.: Benét, 900] describes the fears and actions of five men and two women before their deaths on the scaffold. [Russ. Lit.: Magill II, 957] attempts to kill his employer’s wife, (his mistress), is condemned to the guillotine. [Fr. Lit.: Stendhal The Red and the Black in Magill I, 808] Goya painting of Napoleon’s soldiers firing on Spanish rebels. [Sp. Art: EB, 8:260] site of gallows where criminals were publicly hanged. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 920]
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There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely stated in a treaty regulating all the details of time, place, circumstance, and quantity; leaving nothing to future discretion; and depending for its execution on the good faith of the parties. At last he was caught in the very act, and having his hands bound behind him, was led away to the place of public execution. One of the most delighted spectators at the execution was the anonymous Respector of Law who had flung the condemned. |
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