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How to use hanged in a sentence

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Edward Marcus Despard was the last person in Britain sentenced to be publicly hanged, drawn and quartered.
In Scotland and in England royal assent was required in order to dissect the bodies of hanged felons.
It is so easy to say that murderers should be hanged, but what if they have been framed, or the evidence isn't up to scratch.
Tone, aboard the last French invasion fleet, was captured and suicided before he could be hanged.
Despite slender evidence when tried at the Queen's Bench, he was indicted, convicted, and hanged.
A cheering crowd dragged their burned and mutilated bodies through the streets and hanged two bodies from a bridge over the Euphrates River.
India's last execution was in 1995, when an auto-rickshaw driver convicted in the serial murders of prostitutes was hanged.
A vigilance committee hanged the three men accused of being the ringleaders, while the lives of the rest were spared.
For many New Englanders, capital punishment relates more to the era of witches being hanged than to the current day.
He also came to know a half-witted spinster who, having stolen a yard or two of cloth from a weaver, was to be hanged for it.
Although it does seem like a dim and distant memory now, I still remember people being hanged in Britain during my lifetime.
Smith, who is to be hanged, will probably leave death row after his sentence is commuted to life imprisonment.
The bushranger was hanged in Melbourne in 1880 after being captured in a shoot-out with police in the small town of Glenrowan, Victoria.
Thomas Weir was sentenced to death and burned at the stake, while his sister was hanged.
She was hanged three weeks later despite public uproar and thousands of people demonstrating in the street.
Between October 1952 and November 1954, 756 rebels were hanged, most for offences less than murder.
In August, he was hanged on Gallows Hill, one of 19 people executed for witchcraft.
Her 25-year-old lorry driver husband was hanged for the murder of the child.
The last execution here took place in 1997 when eight prisoners were hanged.
At the country house, David tells the O'Briens that he's hanged if he knows what's got into Beryl.
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Examples from Classical Literature
While in Newgate he hanged himself to the cell window with his own stockings.
And yet people do not get hanged or run through the body for the sake of a charade.
Thus climbed is gaining the upper hand of clomb, swelled of swoll, hanged of hung.
We came back to Kinston and hanged twenty-five of those prisoners who were found to be deserters from our army.
And, dang it, I would have been hanged almost as soon as say so much to a father.
Casanova threatened to have him hanged, but according to Da Ponte, was dissuaded from this by counter accusations made by Costa.
Anyway, the man was to be hanged and I was deputed to attend the execution.
In the carvings he is really hanged, and the hangsmen are the geese of his despoliation.
After he was hanged they cut down this true martyr, and stripping him, slashed him open in order to disembowel him.
Still, if detected in secreting or feeding me, he would be hanged from his own door-post.
We then took six of the leaders, and, holding a drumhead court-martial, sentenced them to be hanged.
All the rebel Sepoys and troopers who were captured, were collectively tried by a drumhead court-martial, and hanged.
Jobling was tried at Durham Assizes, and condemned to be hanged and gibbeted.
At any rate, the mutilator of the friar was yielded, and in due course was hanged by the Spanish authorities.
She might restrict my eatables, but I'd be hanged if I was going to have her meddle with my drinks.
You will be hanged, noni, you will be hanged, and I will dangle by your side.
Executions were very often occurring, for people were hanged for trifling offences.
Come on then, sledge in the doors an' windies, an' if we lave a single inch of the villains together, may we be hanged like dogs!
Boys were flogged when criminals were hanged, to impress the awful warning on them.
The scholer was hanged, on Shrouetuesdaie at saint Thomas Waterings, and the frier condemned to perpetuall prison.
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