an instrument designed and used to take the life of a condemned person
a device that requires skill for proper use
the means whereby some act is accomplished
a person used by another to gain an end
the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process
putting a condemned person to death
the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
(computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer
