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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After his victim had been turned off the ladder, probably by the assistant hangman , Schlegel remained astride the cross-beam.
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And waiting for the call: The last hangman says bring back the rope.
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Brunskill's thirty-eight years of executions were by now telling on him, a strain suffered eventually by most hangmen.
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Syd Dernley was a public hangman before the capital punishment was abolished in nineteen sixty-five.
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That's what's expected tonight at the Oxford Union, when former hangman , Syd Dernley speaks in favour of capital punishment.
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The hangman then twisted the ladder away, turning off the victim.
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The huge old canvas sack on a chain looked like a real-life victim of a game of hangman .