Hanged in a sentence

Another particularly popular belief was the power of the intact corpse of a hanged man, whose hand could cure cancers; indeed it was not uncommon to see mothers brushing their child's cheek with the hand of a hanged man.

He begins by concluding that the "surprise hanging" can't be on Friday, as if he hasn't been hanged by Thursday, there is only one day left - and so it won't be a surprise if he's hanged on Friday.

The feeling caused by the hanging of these men was deepened by the circumstances of the execution ,  for the scaffold on which the rebels were simultaneously hanged broke down from their united weight and the men were afterwards hanged one by one.

The last man hanged by the vigilantes may have done nothing more than express an opinion that several of those hanged previously had been innocent.

A former head of the Royal Marines hanged himself at his marital home after his wife left him and he lost his job, an inquest has concluded.

Billed as a “magical coming-of-age,” the novel is set in Ancient Greece and is inspired by the myth of Penelope’s hanged maids.

But both men were hanged on December 2, 1977, the last people to be executed under British rule anywhere in the world.

Certainly the sight of a hanged man greeting Tom on his nighttime drive into the “new,” post-pullout Afghanistan is catnip for the Jake Tapper crowd.

Chinese born Djang Djin Sung became the last man to be hanged at Worcester when he was executed at the County Jail in Castle Street for murdering fellow countryman Zee Ming Wu.

Dario Argento’s visually stunning, deeply unsettling horror classic is full of scary scenes: a ballet student is hanged by a skylight, maggots rain down from the ceiling, and the broken quill of a glass peacock goes through Helena Markos’s neck.

Handcuffed and doomed: Lucy Boynton as Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, in her most.

He was arrested on November 19 in the northeastern city of Mashhad and hanged from a crane in public less than a month after his arrest.

In 1831, Nat Turner, who led fellow slaves on a bloody uprising in Virginia, was hanged.

In 2020 a British soldier was found hanged at a hotel in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, after returning from a nightclub while off duty.

Information reaching faceofmalawi indicates that a police officer based at Chisenga Police Unit in Chitipa district has hanged himself to death.

In October 1943, after the Nazis began a brutal occupation of their former ally, German troops hanged six Italian civilians on a hillside in southern Italy as collective punishment for the killing of a soldier, who had been foraging for food.

Iran on Saturday hanged two men who participated in antigovernment demonstrations have been sentenced to death for their part in the protests.

Iran on Thursday also executed a man in his early 20s who was the eighth person to be hanged in a case related to months of nationwide protests that erupted in September 2022.

It heard that on September 18, she had been found hanged at her property on Chester Close in Flint by police officers after concerns had raised by family members for her safety.

It’s not a stretch to surmise they did not have a major recidivism problem with murderers because they were hanged, and lesser felons received long and hard punishments.