0 past simple and past participle of execute
1 to kill someone as a legal punishment:
He was executed for murder.
2 to do or perform something, especially in a planned way:
A convicted murderer was executed in North Carolina yesterday.
Guy Fawkes was executed for treason after he took part in a plot to blow up the British Parliament building.
Anyone caught trying to escape from the prison camp would be executed on the spot.
A firing squad was ordered to take the prisoners to a nearby clearing and execute them.
