English-Spanish translations for hanging

ahorcamientoLas lapidaciones y los ahorcamientos públicos son una barbarie. Stoning and public hangings are barbaric. Señor Presidente, en los ahorcamientos públicos se hace un uso muy desagradable de las grúas, sobre todo en los ahorcamientos con tortura. Mr President, there is a very unpleasant use of cranes for public hangings, especially hangings including torture. A mí, me cuesta trabajo pensar que los ahorcamientos o los apaleamientos públicos sean reflejo de la discriminación. I find it hard to believe that hanging and public beatings are the result of discrimination.
colgandero

colgandoNo obstante, la amenaza de accidentes como el desastre del sigue colgando sobre nuestras cabezas. Nevertheless, the threat of accidents like the disaster is still hanging over us. He encontrado padres que empujaban las silletas de sus hijos con el cigarrillo colgando de sus bocas, sobre las cabezas de aquéllos. There were parents pushing children in buggies, with a cigarette hanging over the child. El acuerdo, entonces, estaba colgando del hilo de las conversaciones entre la Canciller Merkel y el Presidente Sarkozy. The agreement, then, was hanging by the thread of the conversation between Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy.
colgante
suspendido

Suspended
Unprotected and exposed to capture
ugly; very unattractive
The act of hanging a person by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide
A sometimes public event at which a person is hanged
Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins or posters
The way in which hangings are arranged

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