hanged

• They were sentenced to be hanged, and the sentence was carried out, within six weeks of their act At the North, Brown was widely honored as a hero and a martyr. —  The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement
• They were all three condemned to be hanged, and their bodies burned. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• They were hanged, and then burned in the market-place, and seven of the persons they had mentioned shared the same fate Hoppo and Stadlin, two noted wizards of Germany, were executed in 1599. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• For there was an ugly rumor afloat that the man she expected had been caught and hanged, and that a Confederate might attempt to impersonate him. —  Special Messenger
• In 1814 he had told Monroe that he would have had the leaders of the Hartford Convention hanged, and he applied the same measure to Southern as to Northern sectionalism. —  A History of the United States

Word Family