execution, n.All

How did the executioner learn about knots?He always watched the evening noose

The guillotine was invented to create “equality in execution”, pushing aside cruel practices like drawing-and-quartering

Execution is the refusal to admit that your crimes could ever be mine.

Execution is the form human sacrifice takes when a nation becomes civilized. Human sacrifice is not dropped altogether but rather confounded with the execution of those wretches as would be put to death at any rate.

In Ancient Asia, death by elephant was a popular form of execution. Elephants were trained to torture their victims to death.

The traditional "last meal" on a death row didn't begin as a compassionate act but as a way to bribe their ghost not to haunt the executioners

Execution is everything: Ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier.

No Salem "Witches" were ever burned at the stake

In Ancient Rome, condemned prisoners were often executed onstage when "actors" were needed for death scenes in theater performances.

Execution is mere delusion when it is without vision.

Guillotine blades tended to quickly dull so, During the French Revolution, those who were to be executed fought to be first.