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De Maistre, if I may paraphrase his argument, or Berlin's account of it, pointed this out: why, when we meet a soldier, who kills other, blameless people in his line of work, are we polite and maybe admiring; yet when we meet a hangman, who kills only those who deserve to die (in theory at least), we recoil in disgust?
Except in one profession: India is searching for a hangman.
For now, India may not need a hangman after all.
"What are they laughing at?" "Dummy don't need a hangman," Fisher said.
"Things were being put on the bathroom walls," including a "hangman noose," Ms. Hannah said.
Prison officials, compelled to act, issued a call for a hangman.
Ten days after his father's death, Mr. Kumar applied for government certification as a hangman.
Paul decided if Colby stood on something, they wouldn't need a hangman.
He found a hangman's noose in the sand by the Salton Sea.
He is yanked heavenward — hoisted up by a hangman's noose.
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