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Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment

Kill an enemy with an execution in 100 multiplayer (Player or Ranked) matches of 3+ rounds

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How to unlock the Capital Punishment achievement in Gears of War - Definitive Guide

This achievement speaks for itself - simply kill one hundred enemies with an execution in ranked matches.

An execution kill is when you kill an enemy at close range when they are downed. Approach the enemy, and standing close, shoot their body (or head). You will know if you have performed a successful execution if the icon in the corner of your screen indicates a similar image to that of the achievement picture (seen in the upper left-hand corner of this page.
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all of the 100 kill achievements are glitched after the last patch, for most people they pop now between 125-150 of each, but 290? im sorry pal that really sucks, best i can say is keep executing and hopefully it will pop soon.
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By Crimson Drifter on 13 Sep 2008 18:18
Mine unlocked around 135 (all warzone)
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By James Ratm on 22 Sep 2009 11:13
I think the problem people are having with having over 100 kills with different weapons & no achievement has to do with people quitting matches (a veritable plague and utterly annoying). Somehow, the kills still count on the leaderboards, but not toward the achievement. I'm not positive on this, but my experience makes it seem more likely to me. I unlocked the chainsaw achievement at 116 (split between Warzone & Execution matches) and I'm currently at 145 'nade tags (again, split between Warzone & Execution, but with people quitting a lot more often, lately) with no achievement. Also, any kills from Annex matches do not count toward the 100 kills achievements, apparently.
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By Tm5k on 07 Oct 2009 22:30
Does anyone know whether you can combine this achievement with the 100 Pistol Kills achievement? What I mean is will 'executing' someone with a pistol while thet are downed count towards both? It would be handy if it did.
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By eln0rte on 24 Jan 2010 15:11
@Tm5k
I know this is old but i can confirm that these achievements are superbly glitched , took me about 200 longshot , hammer and headshot kills in order to get all 3. All were on boosting session warzone , most fuel depot the map and 0 dropouts midmatch.

@eln0rte
Prolly next week ill be able to confirm whether pistol kills count while doing an execution because all the executions ive had were with the pistol.
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By NINja277 on 27 Mar 2010 02:04
I can confirm that weapon kills ,such as pistol, CANNOT be gained simultaneously with execution kills. Every execution i got was with the pistol on boosting sessions with no dropouts and my pistol cheevo didnt unlock with my execution . I had a bit of hope it would =(
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By NINja277 on 10 Apr 2010 02:20
This CANNOT be done in Annex. It has to be Warzone, Execution and Assasination.....
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By B3AST IFLU on 22 Apr 2010 08:02
The only weapons you can boost together are headshots with any weapon
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By UlteriorDesert on 22 Jul 2010 22:28
Not sure if I was just unlucky, but I thought I'd warn people that if you clear your cache various data gets erased (campaign for sure), I had 40 boom kills, cleared my cache to do something else, got another 90 and didn't get it, took another 10 to unlock. So don't clear your cache to be safe.
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By Leo Ascendent on 08 Feb 2011 05:11
cache does not affect saved data, the only thing it erases are the updates that you download.
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By SoH Anarchy on 09 Jun 2011 20:55
Confirmed that you cannot get weapon kills with execution kills at the same time. The kill icon on bottom left will indicate if it counts toward execution or weapon kill.
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By Solario32 on 14 Sep 2011 15:09
Does curb stomp or chainsaws stack with executions?
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By on 29 Oct 2011 18:35
No, munchmagic86, neither of those kills count as executions.
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By ShadowManGMR on 25 Apr 2012 15:34
So Chainsaws, dont count towards this ?
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By NickMon68 on 12 Jun 2012 16:27
No. If person A gets downed and you chainsaw him, it is a chainsaw kill and not an execution. It is just the same with the Curb Stomp. If you kill a downed person and you use the curb stomp, the kill will count as a curb stomp, but not an execution. Just to be safe for execution kills, I would use the pistol and melee with the the gun. If you shoot a downed guy and you are too close, it is a weapon kill.
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By GTAmissions1 on 28 Jul 2012 21:52
I've been seeing boosting sessions for this lately where players are aiming for the downed person's head. You don't need to do this, just shoot them whilst they're down. As long as you get the execution symbol in the kill feed it will count. You can even do executions whilst suicide boosting for the seriously achievement!
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By LordSmorc on 06 Feb 2020 02:50
Yea well I just got my achievement tonight at a astronomical 220 ranked kills . So much for 100 kills for any of these that require 100 kills. All the others I’ve gone for have all been in the 125 + range 😩😡🤬🤔 I got this on 1/26/21
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By bringthepain09 on 27 Jan 2021 03:59
you must have probably done them over different sessions where your progress might have not saved
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By FTW IGotChuked on 29 Dec 2021 17:23
you must have probably done them over different sessions where your progress might have not saved
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By FTW IGotChuked on 29 Dec 2021 17:24
Does anyone know if headshotting the downed person with a pistol counts towards the Money Shot and Pistolero?
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By J ROLL 1998 on 07 Sep 2022 19:45
Nvm I looked at all the comments
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By J ROLL 1998 on 07 Sep 2022 19:46
Anyone even play this
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By Pistol9Nate on 21 Jan 2023 23:02
2 sessions on today!
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By SPECTRUMISGREEN on 02 Jan 2024 07:10
Starting up an Xbox group of players to boost all the ranked matches achievements. Will plan to be online around 10 PM - 2 AM EST (north america) most evenings. Message me via Xbox if you are interested!
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By theg00chmaster on 06 Jul 2024 13:20
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This achievement is fairly easy to get and just requires you to down an enemy, then either melee hit them or shoot them so get a melee kill. The icon for an execution kill is similar to the achievement image. The achievement can easily be unlocked if you are boosting and if you intend on getting an execution kill everytime then simply shoot an enemy in the legs using the lancer or pistol to down them then shoot them or melee them however but be quick if your not in a boosting session as someone may try and take your kill.
Also, watch out if your playing a match with a quick bleedout time as ifyour enemy bleeds out before you reach them then you cant get a kill or if your on Execution then they may get up again so be quick to finish them off while they're down.
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18 Nov 2010 15:28

This can be done while suicide-boosting Seriously in War Machine. The player going long will be getting executions.

1) The opposing player going short ("Short") picks up the grenade, then meets up with the long runner ("Long").
2) Long melees Short with the pistol.
3) Short immediately tags Long.
4) Long melees again, downing Short. Stand next to the downed player when the grenade goes off.

Long should get an execution while Short gets a grenade tag kill. This method is a little buggy, especially if the player has a high-latency connection. When I was doing this, about 1/6 of my attempts ended in only my death, while my partner was left bleeding out. This means you may lose a few kills doing this in a match. However, your parter is NOT at risk of losing kills. You may want to set the bleedout time to 5 seconds.

I was able to complete both Curb Appeal and Capital Punishment with this method. This will eliminate the need to use weapons boosting sessions to unlock them.
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20 Mar 2012 18:10

It's 2020 but Gears boosting is very much still a thing, so here's a more consistent method of getting curb stomps during suicide boosting. With this method you'll get a curb stomp 90+% of the time. The person going for the curb stomp kills needs to be running to the long grenade spawn for this to be efficient and not waste time. You also need to meet infront of the sandbags, so the stomper doesn't accidentally pick up any grenades when mashing cn_X

- Stomper pulls out the snub pistol, shoots tagger once then melees
- Tagger immediately tags
- Stomper mashes cn_X and cn_RT AT THE SAME TIME. What will happen is you'll fire 1 shot, downing the tagger and you'll instantly start the curb stomp animation, Be sure not be face to face as shots will go through sometimes.

The point of this method is that you're damaging the tagger as much as possible without downing them before they tag you, so that after they tag you they only need 1 pistol shot to be downed. The other good thing about this method is that you can get executions the same way. To get executions do the exact same method, but only mash cn_RT after being tagged. The grenade explosion will kill both players, but it will count as an execution for you because you downed the tagger.

Credit to - LordSmorc for helping me figuire this out and testing it multiple ways :)
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07 Feb 2020 00:14

To perform an execution, you must first down an enemy. Once that has been done, you either melee, shoot, or chainsaw the enemy. You do not have to shoot them in the head. Chainsaw kills on downed enemies do not go towards your chainsaw achievement. You must perform this 100 times over ranked matches for the achievement.

For more information, see "Seriously...".

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To perform an execution, you must first down an enemy. Once that has been done, you either melee, shoot, or chainsaw the enemy. You DO NOT have to shoot them in the head. Chainsaw kills on downed enemies do not go towards your chainsaw achievement. You must perform this 100 times over ranked matches for the achievement.

For more information, see "Seriously ..."

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