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Execution

Exile (See BANISHMENT.)

Budd, Billy

court-martialed and hanged for accidently killing a ship’s officer. [Am. Lit.: Herman Melville Billy Budd]

cigarette

final favor granted one about to die. [Pop. Cult.: Misc.]

Deever, Danny

hanged by his regiment for shooting a comrade. [Br. Lit.: Kipling Danny Deever in Benét, 549]

Derrick

famous hangman; eponym of modern hoisting apparatus. [Br. Hist.: Espy, 170]

Doeg the Edomite

dispatches priests of Nob under Saul’s order. [O.T.: I Samuel 22:18–19]

Esmerelda

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]

guillotine

invented during French Revolution as a humane method of capital punishment. [Fr. Hist.: Benét, 429]

hangman’s noose

characteristic knot for death by hanging. [Pop. Cult.: Misc.]

Ko-Ko

appointed by the Mikado as Lord High Executioner. [Br. Opera: The Mikado]

Lord of the Manor of Tyburn

nickname for ordinary hangman at Tyburn gallows. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1110]

Macheath, Capt.

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]

Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico

executed in 1867; subject of painting by Manet. [Mex. Hist.: NCE, 1728; Fr. Art: EB, 11:440]

Savonarola (1452–1498)

reformer priest, hanged and burned at the stake as a heretic. [Ital. Hist.: Benét, 900]

Seven That Were Hanged, The

describes the fears and actions of five men and two women before their deaths on the scaffold. [Russ. Lit.: Magill II, 957]

Sorel, Julien

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]

“Third of May, 1808, The”

Goya painting of Napoleon’s soldiers firing on Spanish rebels. [Sp. Art: EB, 8:260]

Tyburn

site of gallows where criminals were publicly hanged. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 920]

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(operating system, programming)

execution - The process of carrying out the instructions in a computer program by a computer. See also dry run.