The meaning of EXECUTION is the act or process of executing : performance. How to use execution in a sentence.

2 days ago · Frank Walls will be executed at 6 p.m. after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his appeal for a stay of execution.

2 days ago · A man convicted of killing a couple during a home‑invasion robbery, and later confessing to three additional murders, was the 19th person executed in Florida this year.

4 days ago · Ahead of his execution, Humphreys, 52, requested a gluttonous spread chock full of southern classics with a dash of fast-food for his final meal — which went viral online.

EXECUTION definition: 1. the legal punishment of killing someone: 2. the act of doing or performing something…. Learn more.

The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…

The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in such a manner is called a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is an execution. A prisoner who has been sentenced …

2 days ago · Frank Walls, who confessed to five Okaloosa County homicides, was executed Thursday, 38 years after the brutal murders of an Okaloosa County couple.

6 days ago · Executions in the U.S. nearly doubled in 2025 over the previous year as Florida executed more prisoners in a 12-month span than ever before, according to the Death Penalty …

The execution of Frank Walls marked the highest number of state-sanctioned killings by a single state in more than 15 years.