the gallows

The last woman believed to have been executed in England for witchcraft may have avoided the gallows, according to new research.

What did exhuming this corpse of a bill for a second swing at the gallows—it failed 43 to 50 on Thursday—bring for Schumer?

The triumphant visitors wore long faces, rejoicing in a first win in this place in 22 years by wearing the look of men who had earned a reprieve from the gallows.

He invoked many of the most terrifying images from the day, such as the rioter who carried a Confederate flag through Congress and the gallows that Mr Trump's supporters erected outside the building.

When the real-life Höss was executed for his crimes in April 1947, the gallows was built just 100 meters from this once-cherished house, a domestic paradise that operated in the shadow of an inferno.