#executing__execution__capital_punishment__capitalpunishment__death_penalty__deathpenalty  putting a condemned person to death
  supertype:  corporal_punishment  the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime
  subtype:  burning_at_the_stake__burning  execution by fire
     subtype:  auto-da-fe  the burning to death of heretics (as during the Spanish Inquisition)
  subtype:  hanging  a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead; "in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment"
  subtype:  electrocution.executing__burning  execution by electricity
  subtype:  beheading__decapitation  execution by cutting off the victim's head
  subtype:  crucifixion  the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross

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