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Gallows
Gallows noun - An instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging.
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Iris Out Just in Time: The Boy is saved from the gallows by a Last Minute Reprieve just moments before the trapdoor is to drop.
Source: Film / Intolerance - The last part is a giant drop, symbolizing hanging from the gallows.
Source: Downer Ending / Other - When the militia are about to be hanged, the method is to be a New Drop-type trapdoor gallows first used in 1813.
Source: Anachronism Stew / The Patriot
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