/execute doesn't work in command blocks

Thank you for your report!
However, this issue has been closed as Cannot Reproduce.

We were unable to reproduce the problem you are describing. The command /execute @p ~ ~ ~ detect ~ ~2 ~ air 0 kill @p works. (re. The error message output, see MCPE-20413)

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