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Execution warrant

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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