If God is merciful, why did He demand that His creatures be hanged in public?
It is thought that if the man survives the fall down a rocky precipice, he will be hanged.
The court said it would hear the case after six weeks, which means the men cannot be hanged until then.
As German agents arrived in Britain they were arrested and given a choice: work for the British or be hanged.
The day before he was to be hanged, he swapped his identity with another French prisoner who had died of typhus.
The man executed for collaborating with Israel is the first to be hanged for the offence since two similar executions last July.
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So Francis sought out the wolf and gave the animal a stern lecture, telling him he deserved to be hanged for his crimes.
"The rapists should be hanged, we need tougher laws to stop rapes, " she said in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament.
Protected by his famous home-made bulletproof armour, Ned himself survived the shoot-out, only to be hanged at Melbourne jail a few months later.
There had been reports over the weekend that the men would be hanged on Sunday, but jail officials denied any preparations had been done.
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Qasab originally denied the charges against him but last July, in a dramatic outburst in court, he admitted his role and asked to be hanged.
"We want the culprits to be hanged, " the victim's father said.
"There will be disastrous consequences if those officers are going to be hanged, " said Tariq al-Hashemi, a Sunni Arab who is one of Iraq's two vice presidents.
"If we are going to inform someone by post that his family member is going to be hanged, there is something seriously wrong with the system, " he said.
The last person to be hanged at Hull Prison was Ethel Major in 1934, who was convicted of killing her husband Arthur by poisoning his corned beef with strychnine.
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MHP's demands that Mr Ocalan should be hanged and that Turkey should review its relations with the European Union, which it damns as soft on Kurdish terror, plainly excited many a Turk.
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During Mr Bani-Sadr's impeachment the next year, he stood on the parliament balcony and, as the crowd roared for the president to be hanged, put his chubby fingers puckishly round his own neck.
And Turkey's left-leaning but nationalist prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, has made it clear that, thanks to Turkey's new status, Mr Ocalan, whose death sentence on treason charges was upheld by a Turkish court last month, cannot be hanged.
But others, such as the right to go about the city with a drawn sword, the right to be hanged by a silken rope, the right to drive sheep over London Bridge, the right to be drunk and disorderly in the City, the right to be married in St Paul's Cathedral and buried with the City, may always have been in the realms of folklore.
Should they be convicted and hanged in time for the next election, that would handily weaken the opposition.
This is a place where women can be stoned for adultery, men hanged for changing religion, after all.
When and if Saddam is eventually hanged, Iraqis will finally be rid of a dictator who brutalized his own people.
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