The phrase "threat of execution" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the act of threatening to carry out a punishment of execution, typically in a legal or political context. Example: The government's use of the death penalty sparked international condemnation and protests due to the widespread belief that the threat of execution is a violation of human rights.
LOS ANGELES — By signing an executive order, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California recently ended the threat of execution as long as he is in office for the 737 inmates on the state's death row, the largest in the Western Hemisphere.
Despite the last-minute reprieve, the threat of execution still hangs over Hussain.
He has spent the past 43 years in prison in Japan, under threat of execution.
Arsonists prospered, despite the threat of execution by burning or beheading.
Villon remains in good humor despite being under the constant threat of execution.
Over the course of his 1,797 days in chains, he was starved, beaten and under constant threat of execution.
The hostages suffered appallingly: rape, threats of execution, little or no medical treatment, and the anguish of not knowing whether their families were alive or dead.
The torture experienced by prisoners included severe whippings with cables, pipes and other objects, full-body beatings, twisting of genitals and threats of execution and sexual assault.
Their lawsuit alleges Rezaian and Salehi were repeatedly subjected to psychological and physical abuse during long interrogations that included threats of execution, physical mutilation and dismemberment.
When you get right down to it, Anthony Candell earned his high school diploma by taking shrapnel from a bomb blast and then surviving beatings and threats of execution while a prisoner of war for five months in Leipzig, Germany.
The first news reports this week about hundreds of pages of newly released documents on the C.I.A. program focused on aberrations in the field: threats of execution by handgun or assault by power drill; a prisoner lifted off the ground by his arms, which were tied behind his back; another detainee repeatedly knocked out with pressure applied to the carotid artery.
