What is "hangman's noose"

Usage examples of "hangman's noose".

It was a souvenir, he had said, an exact replica of a hangman's noose, as used before technologyin the shape of the electric chair and gas chamber and lethal injectiontook over in most of the civilized world.

It was a souvenir, he had said, an exact replica of a hangman's noose, as used before technology-in the shape of the electric chair and gas chamber and lethal injection-took over in most of the civilized world.

Just one more loop in the hangman's noose that the Fisherman will eventually put around his own neck.

Then he began to understand the finality, the significance of that tiny groove in the steel blade, and of the fatal threats that Sam Bowles had shouted at him with the hangman's noose around his neck.

I was afraid to turn around because I might see Hubie Marsten shambling after me with a hangman's noose in one hand and his face all black.

She saw the red leather glove blur as it tore through a tiny gap in the defending circle of arms, and she saw the other man's head snap as though it had reached the limit of the hangman's noose as his body fell through the trap.

The only repeat item was a length of thick rope fashioned into a hangman's noose.

A slipknot is not as efficient as the hangman's noose with its thirteen turns, but it is effective.

I smelled the burning of my own flesh and thought I did not care, until a spasm of pain jerked me more sharply than a hangman's noose.