絞こう首しゅ刑けい

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 50,000

Meanings

death by hanging; execution by hanging

Legal term for capital punishment carried out by hanging. Used in formal, judicial, or news contexts.

〈人ひと〉が絞こう首しゅ刑けいになるfor someone to be sentenced to death by hanging
その男おとこは殺さつ人じん罪ざいで絞こう首しゅ刑けいになった。
The man was sentenced to death by hanging for murder.
〈人ひと〉を絞こう首しゅ刑けいに処しょすto sentence someone to death by hanging (formal/legal usage)
裁さい判ばん所しょは被ひ告こくを絞こう首しゅ刑けいに処しょすと判はん決けつした。
The court ruled that the defendant be sentenced to death by hanging.
絞こう首しゅ刑けいを執しっ行こうするto carry out an execution by hanging
刑けい務む所しょで絞こう首しゅ刑けいが執しっ行こうされた。
The execution by hanging was carried out at the prison.

死し刑けいN1
死刑 is the general term for capital punishment of any method, while 絞首刑 specifically means execution by hanging.
縛しばり首くび
絞首刑 is the formal legal term for execution by hanging, while 縛り首 is a more colloquial or historical way of referring to the same punishment.

絞こう殺さつ
絞殺 means to strangle someone to death, often as a crime, whereas 絞首刑 is a formal judicial execution by hanging.

件けんN2
Used as a count of cases/incidents; this noun is not normally counted with a physical-object counter.

Compound of 絞首 (こうしゅ, 'strangulation') and 刑 (けい, 'punishment'). The term is a straightforward legal coinage.