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'Hanging Judge' is an unofficial term for a judge who has gained renown for handing out sentences of death by hanging or perhaps other harsh sentences. While the term is not necessarily negative, it is used to demonstrate a desire for quick, firm justice. A "hanging judge" may be legally mandated, or may not be, in which case he may be presiding over lynchings.

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Reputed cases of the nickname

Other use

See also

Reputed cases of the nickname

★ Roy Bean, U.S. Justice of the Peace

★ Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie

★ George Jeffreys in England

★ The Hanging Judges of Manila, known as the Guillotine Club

★ Isaac Parker, who had jurisdiction over the Indian Territory (Arkansas) in the United States from 1875 to 1896. In his twenty-one years he hanged 79 men (during the same period, over 60 US Marshals and Deputy US Marshals were murdered serving in Parker's jurisdiction).

★ Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali

★ Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton

★ Joseph Needham (judge)

★ Albert F. Sabo, allegedly resided over more trials resulting in a death sentence than any other judge in the history of Pennsylvania.

Other use

★ A track on the Sodom album 'Til Death Do Us Unite

★ A character in the Bob Dylan song "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" (album: Blood on the Tracks).

See also

★ Lynching