All hangman synonyms
hang·man
H h noun hangman
- garroter — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- lyncher — to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
- executioner — An official who carries out a sentence of death on a legally condemned person.