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vr.tr.execution · thing-q3966286

Let an agent describe execution as a historical and legal practice in neutral, non-graphic terms, relay the legal status of capital punishment by country and the positions of international bodies with attribution, distinguish lawful executions from extrajudicial and mass killings, and route questions about specific cases to sourced reporting.

Thing Registry Activities and processes ACT.PRC
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources

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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions

Concept What execution means.

Definition

Definition and forms.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is execution, and how do lawful capital punishment, extrajudicial killing and mass execution differ? definition
  2. Is the presentation non-graphic and free of operational detail? boundary

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How did execution practice change across history, including the decline of public executions? provenance
  2. Which entry fits capital punishment? action
Law Legal status.

Status

Status by country.

Status

Status.

  1. Which countries retain, suspend or abolish the death penalty, with sources? provenance
  2. Is the information current? boundary

International

International law.

International

International.

  1. What do international instruments and bodies say about the death penalty and extrajudicial killings? provenance
  2. Which entry fits human rights law? action
Debate Abolition debate.

Positions

Positions.

Positions

Positions.

  1. What arguments do abolitionist and retentionist positions make, with attribution? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary

Evidence

Evidence.

Evidence

Evidence.

  1. What do studies say about deterrence, error and disparities, with findings attributed? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance
Cases Cases and documentation.

Atrocities

Mass executions.

Atrocities

Atrocities.

  1. How do historians and tribunals document mass executions, with attribution? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific event? action

Monitoring

Monitoring.

Monitoring

Monitoring.

  1. Which organisations monitor executions, and how do they report? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance

Classifiers Filled

Family
Thing Registry
Category
Activities and processes
Entry kind
thing
Plane
ACT
Domain
ACT.PRC
Other names and narrower kinds
public execution, throat cutting, mass execution

What it is Filled

The killing of a person by or on behalf of a state or other governing authority to carry out a death sentence as capital punishment; this sense excludes extrajudicial killings and does not imply that a particular sentence or execution complies with applicable law or human rights obligations.

Why it exists Filled

Let an agent describe execution as a historical and legal practice in neutral, non-graphic terms, relay the legal status of capital punishment by country and the positions of international bodies with attribution, distinguish lawful executions from extrajudicial and mass killings, and route questions about specific cases to sourced reporting.

Distinguishing features Filled

  • Execution carries out a death sentence imposed by an authority.
  • Execution in this sense is capital punishment, with the legality of particular cases subject to assessment.
  • Methods and publicity have varied historically.
  • Execution is a subject of international human rights law.

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

  • Describe methods in graphic or operational detail.
  • Present contested cases or guilt as settled.
  • Advocate for or against the death penalty as if it were fact.
  • Assist in carrying out any killing.

Only with a human decision

  • Publishing content about named people facing or subjected to execution.

May

  • Explain the death penalty and its legal status by country, citing sources.
  • Distinguish lawful capital punishment from extrajudicial killing.
  • Present debates on the death penalty with several views.

Moral aspects Filled

  • Executions end lives irreversibly, and wrongful convictions occur.
  • Families of victims and of those executed deserve dignity.

Who is affected

  • People sentenced to death
  • Families of victims and of the condemned
  • The public

Owners Filled

Steward

Nobody owns the practice; states that retain it regulate it by law.

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

  • Q149086 - registry parent class
  • Q2438541 - registry parent class
  • Q30904503 - registry parent class

related

  • homicide - a killing
  • manner of death - in registry terms
  • institutional violence - in registry terms
  • capital punishment law - where lawful

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Identity and identifiers required Filled

  • Vercy registry: vr.tr.execution
  • Wikidata: Q3966286 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3966286)

Direct properties not applicable Not applicable

  • countries retaining the death penalty in practice: about 55 count - per abolitionist organisations, with sources
  • countries abolitionist in law or practice: over 140 count - per the same sources

Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.

Recognition optional Filled

  • Execution in this sense is the carrying out of a death sentence as capital punishment.
  • Extrajudicial killing is outside this sense.
  • Homicide in general and assassination are separate entries.
  • Not a visible object; a state act carried out under procedure.

Capabilities and actions required Filled

  • explain the practice and its legal forms
  • relay legal status by country with sources
  • present abolition debates with attribution
  • distinguish lawful from extrajudicial killing

Hazards and failure modes required Filled

  • Graphic or operational description
  • Presenting contested cases as settled
  • Conflating lawful executions with extrajudicial killings
  • Advocacy in either direction presented as fact

Standards and interfaces required Filled

  • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its Second Optional Protocol
  • UN safeguards on the rights of those facing the death penalty
  • National criminal codes
  • International humanitarian law on unlawful killings

Context of use required Filled

  • Not applicable; a penal and historical practice.
  • capital punishment after judicial sentence
  • public executions in history
  • mass executions in wars and atrocities
  • extrajudicial executions
  • military executions

Sources Filled

  1. Wikidata item Q3966286: execution - identity and sense of the item
  2. Wikipedia: Execution - general description of the item

Open questions

  • Should capital punishment be the primary entry?
  • How should status-by-country sources be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged an alias naming a specific method; should it be removed?

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q3966286/spec.json