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Hanging
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HANGING, punishment. Death by the halter, or the suspending of a criminal, condemned to suffer death, by the neck, until life is extinct. A mode of capital punishment.



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There is no discipline in this country any more - if these thugs knew they would hang for murder they might actually think twice about taking an innocent life.
 
 
 
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