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Execution may refer to

[edit] Society

• Capital punishment, the act of putting a person to death
• Capital punishment in the United States, on the specific history and situation in the United States
• A writ of execution, ordering the enforcement of a judicial judgment
• Execution (management), an aspect of management effectiveness whereby managers see that their plans are carried out by the members of the organization
• Execution (legal term), the formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect [1]
• A term for contract killings

[edit] Technology

• Execution (computing), the process in which a computer carries out instructions of a computer program.

[edit] Media and art

• Execution (novel), a 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), an episode of The Twilight Zone

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