The act of carrying out a death sentence, typically due to a major infraction of the law. This is most commonly done by injection of a deadly substance. Certain countries have public executions, public events where people are welcome to watch the executions of felons. The term is also associated with the murder of hostages at the hands of terrorists.

The carrying out of something.

The event or occurance of a thing that is executed.

1)the act of purifying society from it's worthless scum(community service). Instead of feeding useless cracker asses they just get killed. see .50 CAL
2)Capital punishment