The phrase "as a method of execution" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific technique or approach used to carry out a task or process, particularly in contexts related to law, computing, or project management.
Example: "The committee decided to implement the new policy as a method of execution to improve efficiency in the workflow."
Alternatives: "as a means of implementation" or "as a technique for execution".
Saudi Arabia practiced beheading as a method of execution, while the US used electrocution.
In 2008, in Baze v. Rees, a badly splintered Court upheld lethal injection as a method of execution.
The legal scholar Deborah Denno has documented more than three hundred lawsuits filed in the six years following the Baze decision that have cited the case in challenging lethal injection as a method of execution.
ATLANTA, Oct. 22 — For the second time in four days, the Georgia Supreme Court on Monday ordered a stay of execution for a condemned prisoner, citing the United States Supreme Court's decision to review the constitutionality of lethal injection as a method of execution.
She said in the Washington Post interview that Brazil's abstention in a recent United Nations vote condemning stoning as a method of execution was "an error," and she signaled her misgivings, shared by many Brazilians, about Mr. da Silva's failed Iran mediation effort.
In her first interview to the foreign media as president-elect, she told the Washington Post that Brazil's abstention in a recent UN vote condemning stoning to death as a method of execution was "an error".
Similarly, in In re Kemmler (1890), when the electric chair was introduced as a humane method of execution, the Supreme Court held it constitutional because death was "instantaneous" and "painless," unlike the lingering deaths that resulted from "burning at the stake, crucifixion, breaking on the wheel, or the like".
Virginia is currently one of eight states that permits the electric chair to be used as a legal method of execution.
To the Editor: Studies that suggest execution as a method of lowering the murder rate are invalid because the cost of alternative means was not considered.
Ling chi, also known as "slow slicing" or "death by a thousand cuts" was a method of torturous execution practiced in China.
