The phrase "as a means of execution" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing methods or ways to carry out a task or process, particularly in technical or formal writing.
Example: "The software was designed to operate as a means of execution for complex algorithms."
Alternatives: "as a method of implementation" or "as a way to carry out".
While some Chinese provinces have switched to the lethal injection as a means of execution, Xinjiang province has not and Mr Shaikh will be executed by a bullet to the back of the neck.
"It is my contention that the electric chair as a means of execution is constitutional," Gov. Don Siegelman said.
Death penalty supporters in the state were afraid that the chair's gruesome history would result in a backlash, in the courts and among the public, and earlier this year the state switched to lethal injection as a means of execution.
In perhaps his biggest strategic victory, he opposed the Legislature's switching from the electric chair to lethal injection as a means of execution, leaving Nebraska as the sole state with the chair as its only method of execution.
In 2011 the Nebraska Supreme Court said the use of the electric chair as a means of execution constituted cruel and unusual punishment and could no longer be used in executions.
He is after the true dregs of humanity, bona fide war criminals such as Dr. Aribert Heim, whose contributions to the world of medicine included injecting phenol, aka carbolic acid, into hundreds of beating hearts as a means of execution, and Adolf Eichmann protégé Alois Brunner, who is personally guilty of deporting over 120,000 Jews to death camps.
CAIRO — After centuries of public beheadings, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is considering firing squads as an alternative means of execution.
An article on March 11 about Saudi Arabia's consideration of firing squads as an alternative means of execution to public beheadings referred incompletely to the Saudi legal system.
George Carter Stent describes the process as follows: Blowing from a gun was a reported means of execution as long ago as the 16th century, by the Mughal Empire, and was used until the 20th century.
The ruling comes as states around the country are re-evaluating execution as a means of punishment.
These include the systematic use of rape, torture and execution as a means of terrorising and collectively punishing the civilian population, a partial trade blockade of districts deemed sympathetic to the rebels and the destruction of villages.
