"The Gallows Act II," a thoroughly undistinguished follow-up to the 2015 film "The Gallows," seems, for much of its running time, not to have any internal logic to begin with.
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I wanted to [show] the gallows humor and the joy.
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Ali could go to the gallows any time, without such clemency.
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The Gallows Act II Rated R for themes, violence, tired jump scares.
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Another produced an effigy of the French president swinging from the gallows.
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These jobs were hard, and we leaned in on the gallows humor.
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She may even be heading to the gallows as you read this story.
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Gays have also been strung up on the gallows in the public square.
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The result: Fantasies of seeing Trump escorted to the gallows are officially dead.
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And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
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She was taken to the foot of the gallows, where he stood handcuffed.
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However, recent reports indicate 33 people were sent to the gallows on Aug. 2.
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Those refusing to renounce their affiliation with the MEK were sent to the gallows.
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The edict is reversed, and Haman is hanged on the gallows meant for Mordecai.
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Get a taste for it as a child and the gallows might be your fate.
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Personally, I would bloody bring back the gallows and hang every single one of them.
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Dazzling the jury with his high jinks, he saved his obviously guilty client from the gallows.
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As he stood on the gallows, the noose ready, a messenger galloped up with a pardon.
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A stage stands on the site of the gallows, and food stalls where the prison kitchens were.
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The "heretic" (aka revolutionary) Marthas hanging at the gallows are warnings to the rest of the women.
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From there, it's a short trip to the gallows we saw being built in the opening scene.
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She later added a photo of a stick figure hanging from the gallows, The Washington Times reported.
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Two years later, the killer was tried, found guilty, hanged, removed from the gallows, then hanged again.
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But the stakes were life or death, and a vivid imagination alone was no reprieve from the gallows.
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As a result, wrongful convictions are not uncommon in a country that still sends people to the gallows.
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The gallows humor ends with the final shot revealing he was at the wrong funeral the whole time.
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Luckily, the plot was discovered, and while Benedict Arnold escaped the gallows, John André was not as lucky.
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" In an emailed statement to Mashable, Dussault elaborated on the gallows humor of the shirt: "We are from Cleveland.
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So again, it's important that we wait for more information to emerge before we walk her to the gallows.
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The gallows humorists of the day, mimicking flight attendants, told travelers to turn back their watches to the 1950s.
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Witnesses are very rarely called and no forensic evidence presented, raising the likelihood of innocent people going to the gallows.
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The space is grim, just the kind of place you'd imagine as an antechamber to the gallows, or to Hell.
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The Connecticut Colony sent colonial America's first condemned witch — Alse Young, a resident of Windsor — to the gallows in 1647.
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The flight scenes are plenty harrowing, and the gallows humor of the novel and Mike Nichols movie remains very much intact.
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AT DAWN earlier this month three men were led to the gallows in Gaza, the first executions for nearly a year.
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Evidence strong enough to send one suspect to the gallows, for instance, is deemed too weak to convict his co-accused.
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Reading the spin of modern-day Mad Men on this trend, it certainly feels like they are whistling to the gallows.
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On his way to the gallows, it's said that Black Tom was offered a glass of wine by a local landlord.
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During the trials of Salem, Massachusetts, symptoms like staring, raucous noises, uncontrolled jumps, and sudden movements sent women to the gallows.
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All those captured were hanged for treason except Fawkes, who ignobly fell while climbing to the gallows and broke his neck.
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Due to his osseous tuberculosis, Ruest was transported to the gallows in a wheelchair and was hanged on July 21962, 1952.
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Gandhi declared it to be his guide — as did his assassin, Nathuram Godse, who carried it with him to the gallows.
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The day after Iwao arrived there, the guards took the man in the cell next to his off to the gallows.
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And then there's the gallows humor of laughing at a tragic event that only those too young to remember could exhibit.
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The last hangman quit in 2014 without ever having to execute anyone, citing stress after seeing the gallows for the first time.
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He had been dragged to the gallows a handful of times before and saved at the last minute, but not this time.
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Almost every week since, the state has led groups of mostly Islamist prisoners to the gallows on what activists call "Hanging Tuesdays".
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The evidence is really overwhelming that having the wolf at your door, looking at the gallows, all of that concentrates the mind wonderfully.
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So many died that the tumbrils used to cart thieves to the gallows were repurposed to carry orphans to the monasteries and convents.
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In Arise From The Gallows, modern-day witches, along with Goyette, playfully enact the stereotypes of the hysterical woman, entrapping unwitting puritan men.
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Other bravery shows itself through tenderness, as when an innocent prisoner devotes himself to comforting panicked men on their way to the gallows.
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Sri Lanka's last hangman quit in 2014 without ever having to execute anyone, citing stress after seeing the gallows for the first time.
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The politicians whose images were hung from the gallows were Michal Boni, Danuta Hübner, Danuta Jazlowiecka, Barbara Kudrycka, Julia Pitera and Roza Thun.
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How are we supposed to laugh— can we still laugh—when we've just seen corpses swinging from the gallows in a town square?
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The gallows humor and camaraderie is the closest you might ever get, in the material world, to an audience with a capricious God.
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The country's last hangman quit in 2014 without having to execute anyone, but he cited stress after seeing the gallows for the first time.
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For many terrorism convicts, a stop before the gallows is on a show called "In the Grip of the Law," hosted by Ahmad Hassan.
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While they were dragging her to the gallows, she was afraid that her dress might rise above her knees and expose her to shame.
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" Continues Vieira: "If somebody were a fly on the wall in any newsroom, they'd be shocked by the language, and by the gallows' humor.
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In her second film, "Ghost Bitch: Arise from the Gallows," Goyette expands her portrait of modern witchery with a few scenes of Puritan dress-up.
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All of his doctors told him, "if you're going to have cancer, this is the one you want," Lee says, chuckling at the gallows humor.
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The gallows humor inherent in your stories seems to be a response to how bleak life is for people who live below the poverty line.
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Afghan officials said that an unknown prison officer was Meena's birth father, and officials accused Ms. Gul of deliberately getting pregnant to avoid the gallows.
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Thirty-year-old Taimour Reza was sentenced to death, reportedly the first person in the world to be sent to the gallows for a Facebook post.
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This regime, if actually sensitive about its "moderate" image, would not be executing women and minors, and would not be sending opposition supporters to the gallows.
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His life story was as simple as an errant pitch and as complex as a man going to the gallows for a crime he didn't commit.
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In the spring the museum erected an outdoor sculpture by the artist Sam Durant that replicated the gallows where 38 Dakota people were executed in 1862.
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The Prisons Department began the recruitment process in March after the last hangman quit in 2014, citing stress after seeing the gallows for the first time.
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The current research, known as the Gallows Hill Project, was about correcting the misinformation many people have about one of the most tragic episodes in American history.
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Mr Landry responded by saying that if the drugs were not available, why not use the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, or the firing squad?
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Fame is a fickle food, the social media generation is quick to set up the gallows and entering the Trumpisphere may not be worth it for many.
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Would Nixon have complied with the court, narrowly avoiding an actual constitutional crisis, if there had not been a bipartisan group down the street readying the gallows?
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One of his major projects was Fairport's 1971 concept album, "'Babbacombe' Lee," about a Victorian convicted of murder who was freed after the gallows failed three times.
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The 52nd floor of the Viacom building in New York, where Mr Dauman's office is located, is a mirthless place, "like the gallows", says one former employee.
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There was Eliza Fenning, a pretty young cook who went to the gallows for serving her master and his family a heaping plate of arsenic-laced dumplings.
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"When I'm walking up the ramp, I'm thinking: Am I walking up to the gallows where I am going to hang myself?" he told me in 2018.
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But its lyrics speak of empty disillusionment, and the refrain, "15 steps, then a sheer drop," is widely thought to refer to being hung from the gallows.
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One grateful student pointed out the gallows where anti-Qaddafi protesters had been hanged, while others wondered what the United States might do to help win the peace.
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They may have felt it was a little rum to send someone to the gallows for stealing a cow, so they downgraded the charge or acquitted the defendant.
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The film's dialogue was almost entirely improvised by the cast, like "Curb Your Enthusiasm" without the gallows humor, but it followed a 19-page script that Cherry wrote.
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Being sentenced to the gallows after a unanimous "not guilty" from the jury can be one of the most traumatizing experiences one could ever go through in life.
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You've got to realize that when I'm walking up the ramp, and I'm thinking: Am I walking up to the gallows where I am going to hang myself?
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In these terms, Mr English was pushing his client to live up to his "rational" self, and to pursue the enlightened path of saving himself from the gallows.
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It's definitely heavy, but it's not sludge, and it's not pure doom, either; it's certainly not stoner rock (though it does swing like a villain from the gallows).
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The two films, Ghost Bitch: Arise From The Gallows and Ghost Bitch U.S.A., tackle the horrors of the Salem Witch Trials and the misogyny which still permeates culture today.
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" For many terrorism convicts, a stop before the gallows is a spot on Iraqi state television, as participants in a reality show called "In the Grip of the Law.
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She does not hesitate to dole out grisly punishments: She orders a young Jesuit, found guilty of treason, to be removed from the gallows and disemboweled while still conscious.
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MINNEAPOLIS — The wooden remnants of "Scaffold," the gallows-like sculpture that created so much controversy at the Walker Art Center this summer, will soon be buried in symbolic fashion.
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The noose currently at the gallows in Colombo was imported from Pakistan 12 years ago; the government is not planning to import a 12-year-old noose from Pakistan.
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One of the gallows replicated in the sculpture was that used for the hanging of 38 Dakota men in Mankato, Minnesota, in 1862 — the largest mass execution in US history.
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It's a day that will forever be entrenched in the memory of Iraqis who watched their ruthless leader walk towards the gallows and have a noose tightened around his neck.
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Coffee Talk Art Print, available on Society6, from $18.74If they're never further than 45 feet from a coffee pot, they'll probably appreciate the gallows humor of this spot-on poster.
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"It's a first because it was treason," de la Peña explains, noting that at the time, the punishment for women who committed treason was being burned alive at the gallows.
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According to the Guardian, the gallows-humor hashtag topped the Twitter-like Weibo platform as China entered the Lunar New Year, a grim reminder of a fast-spreading viral outbreak.
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"Even criminals dropping straight from the gallows have an undisputed claim to six feet of ground," mourned Sol Plaatje, one of the founders of the African National Congress (ANC), in 1916.
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Against a shimmering backdrop of pink, blue, and orange clouds, a Haitian leader in tasseled military regalia appears victorious and resolute as he hoists his French adversary aloft in the gallows.
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He said he was joking on the podcast when he discussed oral sex, saying it was no different than the gallows humor that might be used by those suffering from AIDS.
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It was Malle who, casting her in his first feature film, "Elevator to the Gallows," shot her in natural light without heavy makeup, letting her hauntingly expressive face work its magic.
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Another hit among dozens over the decades was Ascenseur pour l'echafaud, or Elevator to the Gallows, directed by Louis Malle with a soundtrack of the same name by jazz artist Miles Davis.
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He lets soldiers lock her up with Solomon Coop, who threatens her with rape and the gallows for attempted murder unless she signs over her half of Nootka Sound to the crown.
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Already operating three bookstores in Seattle, Portland and San Diego, the gallows humor of Amazon the bookstore killer bringing a chain of bookstores back to the U.S. shouldn't be lost on anyone.
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Urged into action by her cousin, Esther plays on the king's paranoia, engaging in court intrigue to turn him against Haman, who is hanged on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai.
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A prison official said applicants would be sought for two positions of executioner, vacant since March 2014 when the last hangman quit soon after setting eyes on the gallows for the first time.
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"The authorities' rush to send a child to the gallows in order to placate public anger is short-sighted and misguided," Magdalena Mughrabi, Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa deputy director, said.
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The last execution in Sri Lanka was 43 years ago, and Sri Lanka's last hangman quit in 2014 without ever having to execute anyone, citing stress after seeing the gallows for the first time.
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"The gallows used in the sculpture represent a range of executions, some nearly iconic, beginning with John Brown in 1859 and culminating in the scaffold used in Saddam Hussein's hanging in 2006," he wrote.
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The Irish poet and rebel was sent to Australia in lieu of the gallows in 1867 and went on to be national hero there for his later literature and early work with civil rights.
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With the gallows humor of a seasoned journalist, Mr. Muratov was in a jovial mood and told me that he was getting a great kick out of state media's hard turn against Mr. Trump.
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Iran continues to send juvenile offenders to the gallows despite a decades-old pledge to not use the death penalty against people who commit a crime while under the age of 18, Amnesty International said.
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The gallows humor about the AK-473 was that if you dropped it in the mud, you could pick it up, bang it against a tree to clear it, and it would start firing again.
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A tour of this bleak yet fascinating relic provides a glimpse of convict life over the years: pitch-black solitary confinement cells, subterranean tunnels leading to a courtroom, the gallows where 1503 prisoners were hanged.
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The last one, P.S.U. Premasinghe, 45, landed the job five years ago but resigned in shock at the first sight of the gallows at the main prison in the capital, Colombo, days after he began training.
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As for that action, it produces a few highlights, the best being a rescue from the gallows with a swiveling guillotine as part of the bargain; and the worst in a frantic sequence featuring a runaway bank.
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The dance is accompanied by Miles Davis's score for " Elevator to the Gallows " (1958), and deepened still further by the light—or, rather, by the failing of the light, which turns Hae-mi into a semi-silhouette.
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One of the gallows the piece represents was used to hang 38 Native men in Mankato, Minnesota at the end of the US-Dakota War of 1862, the largest mass execution in the history of the United States.
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Ravel proves a supreme colorist in the work's three movements, based on poems by Aloysius Bertrand: "Ondine," with its billowing, watery flow; "Le Gibet" ("The Gallows"), desolate in its inexorable tread; and "Scarbo," named for a tormenting dwarf.
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But don't be fooled by the gallows humor of chapter names like "Sieg High" and "High Hitler": This is a serious and original work of scholarship that dropped jaws around Europe when it was published there last year.
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While Kavanaugh won't be headed to the gallows, this modern-day witch hunt not only causes him and his family to suffer for the years to come, but will set a terrible precedent for future Supreme Court nominees.
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And the Ministry of Justice and Prison Reforms decided this week to import a new noose; the one at the gallows now was brought in from Pakistan 12 years ago and has never been used in an execution.
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"Elsa" who faced the blizzard in a long, flowing blue dress and a silver wig, single-handedly helped pushed the police vehicle out of the snow – much to the excitement of those taking shelter at The Gallows, a gastropub.
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The Washington Post reported that a group of men, led by an anti-Islamic nationalist, brought the gallows out onto the street outside of an event where Khan, the city's first Muslim mayor, was giving a speech on Saturday.
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MIAMI — In the gallows humor of Florida politics, the joke among campaign staffers and news reporters has been running for 18 years, ever since the traumatic presidential election of 2000: Don't make any plans for immediately after Election Day.
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Assing shielded him when he was on the run from conspiracy charges in connection with John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, when he came within a hairbreadth of being captured and marched to the gallows with his revolutionary friend.
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Mr. Durant's wood-and-steel scaffold, made in 2012 and previously exhibited without incident in Europe at venues including Documenta 13, is a composite of the gallows used in seven United States government-sanctioned hangings from 1859 to 2006.
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The Balladeer's three portraits in song are as catchy as musical theater gets: the one for Booth a banjo tune, Czolgosz's a common-man anthem, Guiteau's a hymn of uplift — after which he is literally uplifted, on the gallows.
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The Baghdad government is believed to be holding thousands of ISIS men and women behind bars, has sentenced more than 300 locals and foreigners to death on terrorism charges – and wasted no time in already sending dozens to the gallows.
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Next to shots of labor camps, people being weighed down by kettlebells in pools, a bunch of Handmaids lined up on the gallows, and Aunt Lydia, who somehow got hold of a microphone, the trailer teases Offred's (Elisabeth Moss) freedom.
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The mullahs have also proved their "sickening enthusiasm" of sending juveniles to the gallows, all in violation of international laws and respecting no bounds in this regard, said Magdalena Mughrabi, Deputy Middle East and North Africa Program Director of Amnesty International.
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Unlike those blond babes (like Roxie Hart, the floozy in the musical "Chicago") who were cleared of homicide by all-male jury trials, Sabella, an Italian immigrant who was as plain as a mud fence, was destined for the gallows.
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On the way to the gallows, the sheriff says that sometimes, in shootouts with desperadoes or when wrestling cattle rustlers at the edge of a cliff, he suffers trepidations, and he wonders if the schoolmarm is feeling anything like that now?
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THIS MORTAL BOY By Fiona Kidman One December night in 1955, a 20-year-old Irish immigrant named Albert Black, wearing heavy boots to make his hanging snap, shuffled to the gallows of a dark prison in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Hasina's government, which began her term in 2009 cracking down on Islamist groups and sending top leaders to the gallows for war crimes during the 1971 independence war, is seen by some as increasingly high-handed after nearly a decade in power.
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"Busted: Wikileaks caught me doing phone calls while getting married in an election year," Rabin-Havt, a former Harry Reid staffer who now hosts a show on Sirius/XM radio quipped, adopting the gallows humor of many Democrats with exposure to the hack.
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The mullahs have also proved their "sickening enthusiasm" of sending juveniles to the gallows, all in violation of international laws and respecting no bounds in this regard, according to Magdalena Mughrabi, Deputy Middle East and North Africa Program Director of Amnesty International.
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All of Conor McGregor's humming of historical feats, his rhetoric of record-breaking rumbles and his guaranteeing of the gallows approaching for Rafael Dos Anjos has been in vain, as the UFC lightweight champion withdrew from their March 5 super fight this morning.
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The Walker's executive director, Olga Viso, expressing deep regret at the "anger and sadness" that "Scaffold" had brought to local Native Americans, quickly agreed with Mr. Durant to remove the gallows structure from the sculpture garden — a space where children often play.
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At a time when one would think Iran after the nuclear agreement with the international community would begin to wind down its human rights violations, especially the use of executions, recent reports indicate 33 individuals were sent to the gallows on Tuesday, Aug. 2.
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This week, the group released a dramatic promo video for their lead single "Deutschland," which portrayed members of the band at the gallows with nooses around their necks, dressed like prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp with one even donning the yellow Star of David.
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Gallow-shaped pages appear in "Lipton, The Gallows Book" (1992), linking Sir Lipton and Stalin; they are burnt into recycled wood slats in "Gallows Drawings 1 – 21" (1994) or in "The Hanged" (1989), a 17-figure sculpture installation to commemorate the executed victims of the 1956 Revolution.
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Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti—who rose from provincial obscurity to dominate his country and wage war across the Middle East, becoming the scourge of three American presidents, ally to another, and, finally, the most prominent casualty of the war on terror—ascends the gallows.
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Occasionally news of Christina trickles back to us: she waters with her tears the places where men are accustomed to sin; she goes to the gallows and suspends herself among thieves; she enters the graves of dead men and there makes lamentation for the sins of men.
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In 22019 alone the world witnessed in all-out shock how the mullahs sent nearly 1,000 people to the gallows, as reported by Ahmed Shaheed, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, adding last year marked Iran's highest number of executions in nearly 30 years.
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IN 1978, a year before the Iranian revolution overthrew the shah and an Islamic republic was declared, the artist Ardeshir Mohassess drew a cartoon showing a king in a turban and sash hanging from the gallows, as a crowd beneath him presents itself to the viewer's eye.
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After a found-footage-style prelude establishing the telekinetic, or whatever it is, power of the play-that-kills called "The Gallows," the movie, written and directed, as the first one was, by Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff, brings us into a fresh world of high-school drama.
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In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living humans!" writes investigative journalist Nellie Bly in her 1887 exposé, Ten Days in a Mad-House, which gives readers a revelatory view into a New York City "lunatic asylum.
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Paris-born, Moreau was a trained stage actress and member of the Comedie Francaise before receiving critical attention for a pair of 1958 films, both directed by Louis Malle — Elevator to the Gallows and The Lover — before capturing international acclaim for her role in Truffaut's Jules et Jim.
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At the crack of dawn that day, at perhaps the exact moment that a Taliban elder was opening my prison door to set me free, hundreds of miles away, a cell door in Rawalpindi was opening and the executioner was readying the gallows to hang my father's assassin.
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With the blessing of artist Sam Durant, the museum allowed for the destruction of Scaffold—a 2012 sculpture resembling the gallows used for a number of executions, including that of 38 Dakota Native Americans in 1862—by the Dakota people who protested its installation in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
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"Scaffold," a wood and steel structure depicting the gallows used in seven historic hanging executions sanctioned by the US government, was dismantled after members of the Dakota Nation objected to its portrayal of the structure used to hang the Dakota 38 at Mankato, Minnesota following the US-Dakota War of 1862.
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" Though recent albums have focused more on relationships than social commentary, Political Radiohead made a timely return on last year's A Moon Shaped Pool, loaded with all-too-apropos political paranoia: "Stay in the shadows / Cheer at the gallows / This is a round up / This is a low flying panic attack.
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Image 2 of 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – At a trial that could send two Southeast Asian women to the gallows, Malaysian prosecutors are shining a light on several men at large they say masterminded and played crucial roles in carrying out the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong&aposs Un&aposs estranged half brother.
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That could also be said of Mr. Kinnear, an era-defining Iago in this same theater in 2013 (for which he won his second Olivier Award), who here recalls Heath Ledger's screen Joker even as he ascends the gallows — a ceiling-high staircase with no rails — in a climactic reckoning that truly does defy gravity.
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The work combines the forms of seven historical gallows used in US government–sanctioned hangings between 1958 and 2006; one of those is the gallows on which 38 Native American men were hanged in Mankato, Minnesota, at the end of the US-Dakota War of 1862 — the largest mass execution in the history of the country.
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" Farquhar's eyesight has grown similarly acute; after his seemingly miraculous escape from the gallows, Bierce's hero notices, on the far shore of the river, "the individual trees, the leaves and the veining of each leaf—saw the very insects upon them: the locusts, the brilliant-bodied flies, the gray spiders stretching their webs from twig to twig.
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By the time Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, Douglass understood full well that slavery could be purged from the United States only with blood — as his friend John Brown had put it on the way to the gallows — and launched blistering attacks on those who sought to compromise with the institution rather than obliterate it.
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After Margaret was saved from the gallows and transported to America in the Season 2 finale, the big mystery of Season 3 appeared to be whether or not she'd make it back to London to see her family again, but that mystery was resolved early on in this very episode when Margaret returned with a new husband and a comfortable financial situation.
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Episode 1 focuses on the emotional and physical torture Lydia puts the handmaids through in order to discourage any more rebellion, although her sadism at the gallows and her smugness as she handcuffs Alma (Nina Kiri) to a burning stovetop underscore how little the handmaids have to lose by fighting back — if it's pain either way, you might as well fight.
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When the newspapermen twist her concern for Earl into something from Page Six, her words—"I never said I loved Earl Williams and was willing to marry him on the gallows"—resonate both as a plot point and as a portrait of innocence; Mollie's a literalist, because she has so little to hang on to, except the truth of her feelings.
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You can compare Howard Hawks's and Brian De Palma's versions of "Scarface" (Friday); attune yourself to the austere style of Robert Bresson ("Au Hasard Balthazar" and "Diary of a Country Priest," showing Wednesday); hold your breath for two classic 1950s heist movies, "The Asphalt Jungle" and "Rififi" (next Friday); or see two films starring Jeanne Moreau ("Elevator to the Gallows" and "La Notte," Aug.
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Kafka once remarked that there is hope, but not for us, and if I'd thought this could draw a smile from Celeste I would have offered it to her as the gallows humor of preterition—the humor I use to bandage my heart—but I know Celeste, and I know what she finds funny, and I don't relish the sight of those distant, unamused eyes.
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Along the way, he visited a creationism museum, enjoyed the gallows humor in a bar in "Cancer Alley" (so named because of the petrochemical plants lining the river between New Orleans and Baton Rouge), watched an unforgettable Cajun-country "Mudfest" (trucks bulldozing their way through a kind of combination motocross and demolition derby, all at full speed in thick mire) and endured a humiliating trip on a mule in Texas with a guide who made the Jack Palance character in "City Slickers" seem sweet.
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