Was pretty executed
Executive summary (direct answer)
There is no evidence in the supplied reporting that anyone named “Pretty” was executed; the documents provided concern legal definitions of “execution date” in contracts and sentencing/execution scheduling rules, not the execution of a person named Pretty [1] [2] [3].
1. What the question appears to ask and why it’s ambiguous
The phrasing “Was pretty executed” could mean either (a) did a person whose name or nickname is Pretty face capital punishment, or (b) is a document or contract entry called an “execution” complete; the material provided focuses exclusively on legal and commercial meanings of “execution date” and on procedural rules for carrying out death sentences, not on any case involving an individual named Pretty [1] [2] [3].
2. What the provided sources actually cover — no person named “Pretty”
Among the supplied items are a D.C. Code-style explanation of execution timing for payment orders (section 4A-301) and multiple guides distinguishing “execution date” and “effective date” in contracts [1] [2] [4] [5] [6], plus federal rules on setting execution dates for death sentences (28 C.F.R. §26.3) and execution-warrant descriptions [3] [7]; none of these sources mention an individual called Pretty or any news-style report of a specific execution by name, so the materials do not support a claim that “Pretty” was executed [1] [2] [3] [7].
3. How executions are scheduled under federal rules — relevant context
Federal regulation 28 C.F.R. §26.3 directs that the Director of the Bureau of Prisons designate an execution date no sooner than 60 days after entry of the judgment of death, with procedures for new dates if stays are issued, which explains how federal execution timing is formalized but does not identify personnel or specific cases [3]; Wikipedia’s summary of execution warrants similarly notes typical time frames and that warrants can expire and be reissued [7].
4. Why “execution date” in contracts adds confusion to reporting
Multiple legal and business guides emphasize that “execution date” often refers to when parties sign an agreement and may differ from the contract’s “effective date,” a distinction repeated across contract-advice sources [2] [4] [5] [6]; this semantic overlap—“execution” as both a contractual milestone and a capital-punishment event—creates fertile ground for misreading or misleading headlines when context is stripped away [2] [6].
5. Limits of the supplied reporting and the correct conclusion
Based on the supplied documents, the only supported factual conclusions are about legal meanings and scheduling mechanics for execution dates in finance, contracts and federal death-penalty procedure; because none of these sources references a person named “Pretty” or reports an execution of that name, it is not possible from these materials to assert that “Pretty” was executed — confirming a negative requires case-specific reporting or court records that were not provided here [1] [2] [3] [7].
6. How to verify a claim like this beyond the provided material
To establish whether an individual named Pretty was executed would require searching court dockets, state or federal Department of Corrections execution lists, contemporaneous news reports, or official execution warrants; the supplied list of scheduled U.S. executions and state execution logs exists as starting points but the documents here do not include such a name-specific record [8] [9].