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Execution, putting an individual to death as a legal penalty for a crime or for political or religious reasons. Sometimes, executions have been carried out by self-appointed commissions or mobs, without due process of law.

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individuals who were executed for criminal, religious, or political reasons, see Anne Boleyn; Marie-Antoinette; Charles I (of England); Adolf Eichmann; Lady Jane Grey; Catherine Howard; Joan of Arc; Louis XVI; Mary, Queen of Scots; Thomas More; Robespierre; Alfred Rosenberg; Sacco-Vanzetti Case; War Crimes Trials; Bogomils; John Ball; Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Saint Edmund Campion; Babism; Thomas Cranmer; Mary Dyer; Saint Paul; Murad IV; Saint John Fisher; Jan Hus (John Huss); Saint Ignatius of Antioch; Manichaeism; Kaj Harald Leininger Munk; Thomas Munzer; Socrates; Paulicians; Tōjō Hideki; George Wishart

execution methods and capital punishment, see Capital Punishment; Electrocution; Guillotine; Hanging; Lynching; Vigilantes; Hara-Kiri

execution in literature, see E(dgar) L(aurence) Doctorow; Lion Feuchtwanger; John Milton

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