In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.