How Tom Dooley ended up

• Like Captain Kidd
• Like the man on one of the tarot cards
• The _____ Man (tarot card)
• Executed by noose
• Like the man on the twelfth trump in a tarot deck
• Like many a Western bandit

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"put to death by hanging," late 15c., past participle of hang (v.). As an expletive, from 1887.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context archaic and legal English) (en-past of: hang )

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Redirect Hanging