Synonyms for execution

noun

1. The carrying out of instructions or plans

   fulfilling, accomplishment, doing; see achievement 1, 2, performance 1.

2. Death by official order

   capital punishment, killing, electrocution, hanging, gassing, lethal injection, beheading, decapitation, guillotining, strangulation, contract killing, strangling, crucifixion, martyrdom, impalement, shooting, burning at the stake, death penalty, ultimate penalty, electric chair, firing squad, the gallows, the rope, the block, the chair*, the ax*.