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Execution warrant - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Acquittal, Action, Administration, Agency, Angary, Annexation, Art, Assassination, Attachment, Ax, Bane, Beheading, Block, Blood, Bloodletting, Burning |
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An execution warrant is a warrant which authorizes the execution or capital punishment of an individual. An execution warrant is
typically issued by an executive officer rather than by a judicial officer only in a dictatorship or totalitarian regimes.
Judges issue execution warrants when they sentence a person to death after their trial and conviction. This protects the executioner from being charged with murder.
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