Execution
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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Execution and gallows are semantically related in hanging topic. You can use "Execution" instead a noun "Gallows", if it concerns topics such as death penalty.
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If the gallows malfunctions in a Fourecksian execution, they let the prisoner go back inside so he doesn't have to stand around in the sun while they fix it.
Source: The Man They Couldn't Hang -
As a main character is the Lord High Executioner, and much of the plot revolves around an execution, quite a bit of it is literal gallows humor.
Source: Theatre / The Mikado -
Reserved only for captain-rank criminals who are bound them to the gallows on Soukyoku Hill, is execution via activating the Spear of Soukyoku, the most powerful zanpakutou ever created.
Source: Kill It with Fire
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