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The phrase "attempt to execute" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort to carry out a specific action or task, often in contexts related to programming, legal actions, or any situation where an action is being tried.
Example: "The team will attempt to execute the new software update during the maintenance window."
Alternatives: "try to perform" or "make an effort to carry out".
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After the failure of a 20-minute attempt to execute him, Clayton Lockett was left to die of a heart attack in the execution chamber at the Oklahoma state penitentiary in McAlester.
It is quite another to do so and also attempt to execute a double back flip or a front flip.
The first attempt to execute him, using wild bears, went awry when the beasts decided to nap.
Ohio's attempt to execute Romell Broom last month by lethal injection was the death penalty at its most barbaric.
The attempt to execute Wood had begun at 1.52pm, with sedation of the prisoner confirmed five minutes later.
It was a stroke of sheer genius, one that few professionals would concede was possible, let alone attempt to execute.
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The usage of midazolam in executions has become controversial after condemned inmate Clayton Lockett apparently regained consciousness and started speaking midway through his execution when the state of Oklahoma attempted to execute him with an untested three-drug lethal injection cocktail using 100 mg of midazolam.
This functionality will attempt to stop and quarantine malware as it attempts to execute.
When the state attempted to execute Lockett, he did not fall unconscious for 10 minutes.
It is an extraordinarily complex system, resistant to outside attempts to execute change.
But soon, the plan — like the pyramid of plebes attempting to execute it — collapsed.
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