- Capital punishment - Carrying out - Carrying-out - How something is done - Implementation - The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to
completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution
of a plan, a work, etc. - A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully
inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer.
- Form of capital punishment - Slack - of Hang - Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. - Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves. - Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging
post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges. - The act of suspending anything; the state of being
suspended.
- Execute on gibbet - Let droop - Lynch - String up - Suspend - To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without
support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on
a hook; to hang up a sign; to hang out a banner. - To fasten in a manner which will allow of free motion upon
the point or points of suspension; -- said of a pendulum, a swing, a
door, gate, etc.
- Water sport - of Boat - The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an
amusement; carriage in boats. - In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying
them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.
- Centre of government - Chattel - Leading city - Main city - Metropolis - Money invested in Paris or London - Money to be invested in Washington, for example
- Christ's execution - The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross,
for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a
method of capital punishment. - The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross;
death upon a cross. - Intense suffering or affliction; painful trial.