Gallows and Sentences

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Gallows noun - An instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging.

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Gallows and sentences are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Gallows" instead a noun "Sentences".

Gallows Humor: All over the place, but mostly in courtroom scenes when criminals have their sentences followed through.

Source: Audio Play / Horrible Histories
Fittingly, after he becomes the new earl, he dispatches William for killing Bishop Beckett on charges of sacrilege and sentences him to the gallows.

Source: Literature / The Pillars of the Earth

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