instrument of execution

Noun
  1. An instrument designed and used to take the life of a condemned person (synset 103580860)
    is a type of: instrument - a device that requires skill for proper use
    subtypes:
    • chair, death chair, electric chair, hot seat - an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person
    • gallows - an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging
    • garotte, garrote, garrotte, iron collar - an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation
    • death chamber, gas chamber - instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced; used to kill people or animals
    • guillotine - instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people
    • stake - instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning
    has: scaffold - a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)

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