| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| EXECUTION | Capital punishment | |
| HANGING | Form of capital punishment | |
| HANG | To put to death by suspending by the neck; -- a form of capital punishment; as, to hang a murderer. | |
| EXECUTE | To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor. | |
| BOATING | In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish. | |
| CAPITAL | Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment. | |
| CRUCIFIXION | The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment. | |
| FELONY | An offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be added, according to the degree of guilt. | |