The phrase "a system that executes" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a system or mechanism that performs specific actions or tasks.
Example: "The software is designed as a system that executes complex algorithms to optimize performance."
Alternatives: "a system that performs" or "a system that carries out".
I do respect the right of a political majority to decide this, and I cannot look at a system that executes the likes of John Wayne Gacy as immoral".
Critics of the Texas capital punishment system have faulted Mr. Bush for defending a system that executes inmates who are mentally retarded, who committed slayings as juveniles and who, in many cases, have been represented by court-appointed lawyers regarded as inadequate.
We implemented a prototype system that executes a service for task members on the task context-aware e-mail platform.
Yan and Zhang analyze a shared instruction cache on a dual core system that executes two threads [47].
By 'embedded' we mean that the optimization algorithm is part of a larger, fully automated system, that executes automatically with newly arriving data or changing conditions, and without any human intervention or action.
In his keynote talk, Dr. Hu presented a novel method to mining, modeling and evaluating a regulatory system that executing cellular functions, which can be represented as a biomolecular network.
We began coding on Sun-2 workstations in early 1985 and had a system that could execute shell commands by the spring of 1986.
When in 2012 scientists briefly thought they'd detected neutrinos that could travel faster than light, for example, high-frequency traders pondered how they might build a system that would execute trades that would, theoretically, occur in the past.
Executing John Wayne Gacy -- who was convicted of the murders of 33 men and boys and was put to death by lethal injection in 1994 -- is not immoral, he suggests, but is it possible to create a system that would execute Gacy but not others?
Continued support of a system that can possibly execute an innocent person means there is an error percentage higher than zero that one is willing to live with.
While most white Americans and their churches do not support the overt white supremacy of Lawrence Brewer, the deafening silence of white Christians in the face of a system that disproportionately imprisons and executes men of color is chilling.
