English-Spanish translations for gallows

• horca
  El uso de grúas como horcas es un crimen y una utilización inadecuada de la tecnología. Using cranes as gallows is a crime, and a misuse of technology.
  Ayer se ahorcó a 10 de ellas: primero, se les impusieron multas elevadas y se confiscaron sus hogares, y luego se azotó sin piedad a cada una de ellas antes de arrastrarlas a la horca. Ten were hanged yesterday: first, they were heavily fined and had their homes confiscated, and then each was mercilessly flogged before being dragged to the gallows.
  El viernes pasado, tal y como nos ha dicho Paulo Casaca, sus ejecutores tomaron a una niña de 23 años de la celda y la llevaron a la horca sin dejarle si quiera dirigirse a sus padres. Last Friday, as Paulo Casaca told us, their executioners took a 23-year-old girl from her cell and led her to the gallows without first allowing her access to her parents.
• patíbulo

Related words

• gallows humour
• gallows humor
• gallows bird
• gallows trees
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• send to the gallows