A job well done.Singapore's official hangman HANGMAN. The name usually given to a man employed by the sheriff to put a man to death, according to law, in pursuance of a judgment of a competent court, and lawful warrant. The same as executioner. (q.v.) , who has executed more than 850 prisoners, would like to retire, but the government is having difficulty finding a suitable replacement for the seventy-three-year-old. "He tried to train two would-be hangmen to replace him, a Malaysian and a Chinese, both in the prison service," a close friend and colleague of the executioner EXECUTIONER. The name given to him who puts criminals to death, according to their sentence; a hangman. 2. In the United States, executions are so rare that there are no executioners by profession. told The Australian. "But when it came to pulling the lever for the real thing, they both froze froze v. Past tense of freeze. froze Verb the past tense of freeze froze, frozen freeze and could not do it." |
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