hangman
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Even the widely despised Chun escaped the hangman.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
The Good Lord Bird opens with Brown climbing a scaffold and, right before the hangman puts a hood over his head, saying, “What a beautiful country.”
From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2020
Seems that “Wheel” is just hangman, but pricier.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020
A notebook and other items belonging to Britain's most famous hangman has sold at auction for £20,000.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2019
His sensitive eyes gazed gravely at the surrounding faces, swerved up to the shadowy hangman, then downward to his own manacled hands.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
“We groan beneath the yoke of hangmen / While drunken justice sodden sleeps,” he writes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
The two hangmen are often called out to Jamaica, the Bahamas, Cyprus, British Honduras.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2014
Although there have been no hangings since 1976 two hangmen were recently recruited but were later reported to have been sacked after absconding.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2013
However, India is known for its bureaucratic delays, and if the country lacks hangmen, it does not lack rules and protocols governing hanging.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2011
Monsieur," said Caboche, "you are the only gentleman who ever gave me his hand, and we all have memories and hearts, even though we are hangmen, and perhaps for that very reason.
From Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas père
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