fin: hirttäminen

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Meaning
means	(noun) a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead; "in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment" hanging
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means	(noun) an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging gallows