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

Criminal Execution by elephant | executed by an elephant, Baroda State | Baroda.

* 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 by hanging is described as follows: " In execution by hanging, the prisoner will be hung on a hanging truss which should look like a cross, while his ( her ) back is toward the cross, and ( s ) he faces the direction of Mecca Saudi Arabia, and his ( her ) legs are vertical and distant from the ground.

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 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.

The Lena Massacre or Lena Execution () refers to the shooting of striking goldfield workers by the Russian Empire's tsarist army on in northeast Siberia near the Lena River.

`` 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.

While others were leaving the country for new and greater opportunities, David stayed to help destroy the old order ; he was a regicide who voted in the National Convention for the Execution of Louis XVI.

* Molepolole-a ) Execution Rock-Kobokwe ; b ) Sokwane, grave of Motswasele II situated NE of Molepolole ; c ) Footprints on the rock in Molepolole Hill ; d ) Burial cairns of Sechele I, Sebele I and Sebele II on kraal site of old Molepolole village site where Sebele I also stayed with favourite wife after village had moved to Borakalalo 1899 / 1900.

Towards 1947, partially recovering his sight after a period of almost total blindness, he painted a number of canvases depicting characters from old Bucharest, or scenes from Romanian history ( The Execution of Gheorghe Doja, 1954 ).

On 15 August 2007 Victor Milkov, a 23 year old student at the Maykop State Technological Institute in Adygea, and RNSP member, was arrested for distributing a video ( named Execution of a Tajik and a Dagestani ) on the internet which shows two migrants apparently being executed by a " militant wing " of the RNSP.

An early Edison production was The Execution Of Mary, Queen Of Scots.

* 1963 – Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland, UK.

* Algol-68 Execution online using browsers.

He was hanged on 23 May 1701, at ' Execution Dock ', Wapping, in London.

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.

; Virtual Execution System ( VES ): The VES loads and executes CLI-compatible programs, using the metadata to combine separately generated pieces of code at runtime.

Implements very incomplete and alpha stage support of a Virtual Execution System.

Image: Edouard Manet 022. jpg | Execution of Emperor Maximilian, 1868

A Secret Execution.

* 1621 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.

* 1142 – Execution, believed wrongful, of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.

Execution was to admit defeat, that the Church was unable to save a soul from imagined heresy, which was the goal of the inquisition.

To counteract this, the Small Order Execution System ( SOES ) was established, which provides an electronic method for dealers to enter their trades.

* BBC Radio 4 — This Sceptred Isle — The Execution of Charles I.

" The Execution of Charles I ", BBC Radio 4.

* 1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.