<[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > For anyone who's a fan of the Star Trek television franchise, there was an episode with the following comment regarding rather draconian laws ... > > "You are free to execute your laws ... and your citizens ... are you see fit" What's the double meaning? To execute: To carry-through and/or put into place. Given that definition, that applies equally to the performance of instruction of computer programs as well as life-terminating procedures - all with a single definition applied to two separate contexts. What is the second meaning you had in mind?