execute 'COD: carry out a sentence of death on (a condemned person). ' hang 'COD: kill or be killed by tying a rope attached from above around the neck and removing the support from beneath the feet (used as a form of capital punishment). ' guillotine 'COD: execute by guillotine. '
Brutus murdered Julius Caesar. The DDT killed the insects. Caesar killed Brutus with a knife.
Examples from SemCor
Two Americans and seven Cubans were executed by firing_squads today as Castro military tribunals began decreeing the death_penalty for captured invasion forces and suspected collaborators. The infamous Wansee_Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put_to_death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich_Minister_of_the_Interior, the State_Secretary of the Four_Year_Plan, the Reich_Minister_of_Justice, the Under_Secretary_of_Foreign_Affairs. Thomas_de_Torquemada, Inquisitor-General of the Spanish_Inquisition, put many persons to death. In February the murder of Patrice_Lumumba, who had been kidnaped into Katanga and executed on order of Tshombe, again stirred the U._N. to action.