gallows
To gallows is to hang someone. When someone is executed by hanging, it is usually done publicly so that the public can see what is happening.
He was sentenced to the gallows for his crimes.
The murderer was hanged from the gallows.
To gallows is to hang someone. When someone is executed by hanging, it is usually done publicly so that the public can see what is happening.
He was sentenced to the gallows for his crimes.
The murderer was hanged from the gallows.
noun
an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging
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He was led to the gallows barefoot and naked.
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Filumena was hung on the gallows at the Fort Saskatchewan penitentiary.
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A picture of misery of a man stumbled in fetters on towards the gallows.
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Two eyewitness to the recorded hanging differed on the location of the gallows.
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The collosal blunder of that invasion actually began his road to the gallows.
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The only way to restore order was to erect the gallows and flog many soldiers.
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But its music now sounds just right for a certain recessionary mood bleary, frustrated, cranky, heartsick and gallows humored.
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The place of execution was then the gallows at Gallows Corner.
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The gallows and the pillory stood there.
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They installed a guillotine and a gallows.