Execution of criminals and political opponents has been used by nearly all societies — both to punish crime and to suppress political dissent.

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* The Adaptive Execution Office ( AEO ) is one of two new DARPA offices created in 2009 by the previous DARPA Director, Regina Dugan.

Unique among all the one minute long films made by the Edison company, which recorded parts of the acts of variety performers for their Kinetoscope viewing machines, was The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Execution was neither performed by the Church, nor was it a sentence available to the officials involved in the inquisition, who, as clerics, were forbidden to kill.

Execution of a Prolog program is initiated by the user's posting of a single goal, called the query.

* when multiple VMs are concurrently running on the same physical host, each VM may exhibit a varying and unstable performance ( Speed of Execution, and not results ), which highly depends on the workload imposed on the system by other VMs, unless proper techniques are used for temporal isolation among virtual machines.

* June 22 – Execution of John Fisher, Cardinal and Bishop of Rochester, by order of King Henry VIII of England.

Execution would require the King to be tried and convicted of treason: and while most Lords agreed that Edward had failed to show due attention to his country, several Prelates argued that, appointed by God, the King could not be legally deposed or executed ; if this happened, they said, God would punish the country.

The uses of these islands vary: Davids ' Island, the former location of the U. S. Army ’ s Fort Slocum, is currently unoccupied but is slated for use as passive parkland ; Glen Island is a County park for passive and active recreation ; Huckleberry Island is largely undeveloped and has one of the largest rookeries for some shore bird species in western Long Island Sound ; Columbia Island was the former site of CBS television broadcast antennas and is currently unoccupied ; Echo Island is used by a private yacht club ; Execution Rocks is the site of a 19th century lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; Pea Island is owned by Huguenot Yacht Club but remains undeveloped ; Goose Island is undeveloped ; Clifford, Harrison and Tank Islands are part of a nature preserve and city park ; and Oak and Pine Islands are used as private residences.

In 1960, Frank Sinatra announced his plan to produce a movie titled The Execution of Private Slovik, to be written by blacklisted Hollywood 10 screenwriter Albert Maltz.

Execution by electrocution, usually performed using an electric chair, is an execution method originating in the United States in which the condemned person is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes placed on the body.

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Execution by firing squad, sometimes called fusillading ( from the French fusil, rifle ), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war.

Execution by shooting is a fairly old practice.

Execution by firing squad is distinct from other forms of execution by firearms, such as an execution by a single firearm to the back of the head or neck.

Execution by firing squad is the common capital punishment method used in Indonesia.

Execution by firing squad was later replaced by lethal injection.

His associates Richard Barleycorn, Robert Lamley, William Jenkins, Gabriel Loffe, Able Owens, and Hugh Parrot were convicted, but pardoned just prior to hanging at Execution Dock.

Wapping was also the site of ' Execution Dock ', where pirates and other water-borne criminals faced execution by hanging from a gibbet constructed close to the low water mark.

September 22, 1692, eight more were executed, " After Execution Mr. Noyes turning him to the Bodies, said, what a sad thing it is to see Eight Firebrands of Hell hanging there.

1604: Execution by hanging of the Laird of MacGregor and fourteen others for the Colquhoun massacre

1650: Execution of James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, by hanging ; surrender of Edinburgh castle to invading forces of Oliver Cromwell ; early fire engines built by James Colquhoun, one for Edinburgh, one for Glasgow ; much of the Palace of Holyrood destroyed by fire ;

* w0812 Execution, Winston-Salem Journal Attendants adjusting a hood over Rainey Bethea's head just before his public hanging in Owensboro, Ky.

* NPR: Last Public Execution in America Text plus audio of statement from two witnesses of the hanging, May 1, 2001

`` It is no time '', he writes, `` to talk with Hints and Innuendos, but openly and honestly to profess our Sentiments before our Enemies have compleated and put their Designs in Execution against us ''.

Execution of Louis XVI in what is now the Place de la Concorde, facing the empty pedestal where the statue of his grandfather, Louis XV, had stood.

Execution of Louis XVI in what is now the Place de la Concorde, facing the empty pedestal where the statue of his grandfather, Louis XV, had stood.

It is an element of the Preboot Execution Environment ( PXE ) network boot protocol,

The military service record of Eddie Slovik, which is now a public archival record available from the Military Personnel Records Center, provides a detailed account of the actual execution of Slovik which took place in 1945 and it was upon this that most of the film The Execution of Private Slovik was based.

Execution by firing squad in the United Kingdom was limited to times of war, armed insurrection and within the military, although it is now outlawed in all circumstances, along with all other forms of capital punishment.

Execution is as follows:

* Two audio documentaries covering execution in the United States: Witness to an Execution The Execution Tapes

Manet immortalized the execution in a now-famous painting, The Execution of Emperor Maximilian ; he painted at least three versions.

* Execution patterns that address concerns related to supporting application execution, including strategies in executing streams of tasks and building blocks to support task synchronization.

" Knox's book depicts exactly this method of execution in a famous drawing, " An Execution by an Eliphant " ( see above ).

* Code Generation: BPMN process model diagrams are used to generate XML-based code in Business Process Execution Language ( BPEL ) for execution.

* Manufacturing Execution Systems ( MES ): Solarsoft's Mattec manufacturing execution system provides real-time monitoring and control for production and process manufacturing.

Stories translated into English include the often anthologised " The Spider " ( 1915 ), a tale of black magic based on the story " The Mysterious Sketch " by Erckmann-Chatrian ; " Blood ", about knife fights to the death ; and " The Execution of Damiens ", a story about the execution of the 18th-century French criminal Robert-François Damiens that achieved some notoriety for its violence.

< td >“ L ’ execution de la Punition du Fouet ” (“ Execution of the Punishment of the Whip ”)

The execution directorates include: Technical Engineering Services ; Intelligence ; Cost and Financial Analysis ; Program Development & Integration ; Contracting Execution ; and Life Cycle Management and Services.

A Warrant of Execution is a form of writ of execution used in British courts.

In his Stay of Execution, Lincoln gave him a two-week stay of execution to “ the necessary preparation for the awful change which awaits him .” The evening before the execution, Gordon unsuccessfully attempted suicide with strychnine poison, prompting the local authorities to move up the execution to noon from 2: 30 p. m. due to Gordon's health.

The E-score ( or Execution score ) evaluates the performance: the execution and artistry of the routine.

Execution is modeled by having Eval messages passed among program constructs during execution.

IBM introduced the Start Interpretive Execution ( SIE ) instruction ( designed specifically for the execution of virtual machines ) as part of 370-XA architecture on the 3081, as well as VM / XA versions of VM to exploit it.

An account from The Gentleman's Magazine, dated February 4, 1796, gives a vivid portrayal of a typical execution at London's Execution Dock.

Édouard Manet's The Execution of the Emperor Maximilian ( 1867 ) is one of five versions of his representation of the execution of the Mexican monarch