| NOUN | artifact | instrument of execution | an instrument designed and used to take the life of a condemned person |
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| Meaning | An instrument designed and used to take the life of a condemned person. | |
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| Parts | scaffold | A platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded) |
| Narrower | electric chair, chair, death chair, hot seat | An instrument of execution by electrocution |
| gallows | An instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging | |
| garrote, garotte, garrotte, iron collar | An instrument of execution for execution by strangulation | |
| gas chamber, death chamber | instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced | |
| guillotine | instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles | |
| stake | instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning | |
| Broader | instrument | A device that requires skill for proper use |
| Spanish | instrumento de ejecución | |
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