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
Organizers tried getting students who might feel bashful online to at least try a game of hangman or charades.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2021
The play’s ingenious setup centers on Harry Wade, England’s second-best hangman, on the day in 1965 that the country effectively abolished executions.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2020
The hangman was doing a brisk trade in murderer’s wash water, but Beetle was at last able to secure a bottle.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
“We groan beneath the yoke of hangmen / While drunken justice sodden sleeps,” he writes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
Two other hangmen hired in 2013 failed to show up for work.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2015
The two hangmen are often called out to Jamaica, the Bahamas, Cyprus, British Honduras.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2014
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
Moreover, if ye hang this hangman, unhanged hangmen shall hang still, and since ye may not all hangmen hang, wherefore should this hangman hang?
From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Jeffery Farnol
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