
‘There were men among them who would receive more punishment for their infractions than just the standard, relatively painless hanging.’. ‘Punishments such as whipping, hanging and transportation were imposed after trials that lasted less than half an hour.’. ‘Nowadays the only types of execution include gassing, the electric chair, lethal injection, firing squad and hanging.’. ‘Liberal over crime and punishment - I believed in public hanging.’. ‘The boldest part of the new programme announced by the Attorney General on Monday is the hanging of all condemned prisoners on death row.’. ‘Most of the others I've held accountable got death by slow hanging.’. ‘This time there was no release and the sentence of public hanging was carried out.’. ‘If harsh prison terms and hanging is not the answer, neither is a kinder gentler mollycoddling.’. ‘Why pay to imprison criminals, when hanging is so much cheaper?’. ‘1783 The last public hanging took place at Tyburn - forger John Austin was the last to die there.’. ‘Trumped-up charges of conspiracy to overthrow the queen, and an unjustly conducted prosecution, brought conviction of treason and hanging at Tyburn.’. ‘Dominic spoke slowly, ‘Red's been sentenced to death by public hanging.’’. ‘Should Bermuda bring back hanging (or any other form of capital punishment)?’. ‘Of course terrible crimes must be met with punishment including long custodial sentences but bringing back hanging is not the right policy in this day and age.’. ‘And it was a really appalling hanging, in the respect that the minister kept them on the scaffold waiting for 25 minutes as he gave a sermon.’.
‘If he does, the original sentence of death by hanging will immediately be carried out.’.‘it was a hanging offence to forge or frank falsely’.