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noun • a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded) • a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers verb • provide with a scaffold for support | ||||
| 37% | 10 | Group responsible for enforcing capital punishment | ||
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| 25% | 8 | Extreme physical pain inflicted as punishment or punishment | ||
noun • extreme mental distress • unbearable physical pain • intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain • the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean • the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason verb • torment emotionally or mentally • subject to torture | ||||
Group Is For Capital Punishment
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SCAFFOLD which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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SCAFFOLD
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