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  2. Guillotine - Wikipedia

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    Guillotine. The guillotine used in Luxembourg between 1789 and 1821. A guillotine (/ ˈɡɪlətiːn / GHIL-ə-teen / ˌɡɪləˈtiːn / GHIL-ə-TEEN / ˈɡijətin / GHEE-yə-teen) [1] is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled blade ...

  3. Procedure word - Wikipedia

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    Procedure word. Procedure words (abbreviated to prowords) are words or phrases limited to radiotelephony procedure used to facilitate communication by conveying information in a condensed standard verbal format. [1] Prowords are voice versions of the much older procedural signs for Morse code which were first developed in the 1860s for Morse ...

  4. Executioner - Wikipedia

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    The executioner was usually presented with a warrant authorising or ordering him to execute the sentence. The warrant protects the executioner from the charge of murder. Common terms for executioners derived from forms of capital punishment—though they often also performed other physical punishments—include hangman (hanging) and headsman ...

  5. Execution (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Execution in computer and software engineering is the process by which a computer or virtual machine interprets and acts on the instructions of a computer program. Each instruction of a program is a description of a particular action which must be carried out, in order for a specific problem to be solved. Execution involves repeatedly following ...

  6. South Carolina to execute Freddie Owens despite questions ...

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    A death row inmate convicted of killing a single mother of three children in South Carolina is set to become the first execution in the state in more than a decade and the 14th in the nation this ...

  7. Capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, [1][2] is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. [3] The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is ...

  8. Crucifixion - Wikipedia

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    Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross, beam or stake and left to hang until eventual death. [1][2] It was used as a punishment by the Persians, Carthaginians, and Romans, [1] among others. Crucifixion has been used in some countries as recently as the 21st century.

  9. Execute - Wikipedia

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    Execute, in capital punishment, is to put someone to death. Execute may also refer to: Execution (computing), the running of a computer program. Execute (album), a 2001 Garage hip-hop album by Oxide & Neutrino. USS Execute (AM-232), an Admirable -class minesweeper. "Execute", the first track on Slipknot's 2008 album All Hope Is Gone.