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To carry out a plan or a person, with unsettling vocabulary overlap.
means To perform an action to completion, whether running code, fulfilling a contract, or putting someone to death.
from From Latin exsequi, to follow to the end — ex (out) plus sequi (to follow), the same root as sequel and consequence.
Legal twistA signed will is executed; so is the executor.
Code realityComputers execute instructions billions of times per second.
Grim driftThe death sense arrived later, around the 14th century.