'Executing' in the Bible

When Israel had completed executing all of the residents of Ai in the open wilderness where they had chased them, and after all of them to the very last of them had been killed by swords, the entire fighting force of Israel returned to Ai and attacked it with swords.

After this, Joshua struck those kings down, executing them, and hanged them on five gallows until sunset.

Joshua then turned back and captured Hazor, executing its king, because Hazor used to be the head of all of those kingdoms.

The Israelis also killed Beor's son Balaam, the occult practitioner, executing him with a sword as one of those killed.