NOMBRE | artifact | instrumento de ejecución | an instrument designed and used to take the life of a condemned person |
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Sentido | An instrument designed and used to take the life of a condemned person. | |
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Partes | cadalso, horca, patíbulo | A platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded) |
Específico | cadalso, horca, patíbulo | An instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging |
collar de hierro, garrote, garrote vil | An instrument of execution for execution by strangulation | |
cámara de gas | instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced | |
guillotina | instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles | |
poste de hoguera | instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning | |
silla eléctrica, silla mortal, silla | An instrument of execution by electrocution | |
General | instrumento | A device that requires skill for proper use |
Inglés | instrument of execution |
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