Word: hangman
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...attorney, who is representing Popieluszko's brother and the driver, struck back. "I did not think," he said, "that I would be forced to take the stand in the role of defender of the victim. Such a statement by the public prosecutor, which would equate the victim with the hangman without any reason for it, is probably unknown in any court records...
Amid this chaos and despair, the professor irrationally hopes. A mad, glorious scene near the end captures Danny's self-contradiction. At a wedding reception in Toronto, the guests become obsessed with recalling gallows-humor stories about a Kostelec hangman who forced condemned prisoners to shave, and shave again until the blood trickled from their chins as they mustered to face their doom. Then he would shout: "Back to your cells, gentlemen. The execution is postponed...
...accounts, a particularly grisly execution. The hangman had to climb onto the shoulders of one of the students, who was so thin that he could not choke to death, in order to complete the work of the noose. To ensure that the spectacle was properly attended, students were prevented from leaving the campus, but many turned their backs and refused to watch. When the hangings were over, someone in the crowd released a dog wearing a colonel's uniform with quotations from the "Green Book" of Gaddafi's wisdom pinned to the sleeves. Police reportedly chased...
...minutes after a chilly dawn at Pretoria's Central Prison, five men stepped up to five gallows, accompanied only by a hangman, a physician and a prison official. At a signal from the official, the hangman pulled a single lever, springing five trapdoors. Church bells tolled in the black ghetto of Soweto 40 miles away, while cries of anguish and indignation reverberated around the world...
...second anonymous call, a day later, was even more ominous. It described Dozier as "the hangman of NATO" and said he was being held in a "people's prison, where he will be judged by the proletariat." No mention was made of ransom or terms for his release...