hangman
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Throughout Maledon’s career as a hangman, Arkansas newspapers regularly reported his identity and his role in executions.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026
Even the widely despised Chun escaped the hangman.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
A notebook and other items belonging to Britain's most famous hangman has sold at auction for £20,000.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2019
For the sailor and the hangman, it had been indispensable in the past, the narrator declared.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2018
The men in the pub are talking about the terrible state of the world and how in God’s name Hermann Goering escaped the hangman an hour before the hanging.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
“We groan beneath the yoke of hangmen / While drunken justice sodden sleeps,” he writes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
But the news that the services of hangmen are no longer needed attracts fresh faces to the pub, including a mod young stranger from London with a gift for vexation.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2020
Two other hangmen hired in 2013 failed to show up for work.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2015
Even though they are rarely called on to carry out an execution, hangmen are paid a monthly stipend by local state governments of about 3,000 rupees or £30.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2014
I thought I had stretched the rope pretty hard in talking of genial hangmen.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
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