Hanging judge

Hanging Judge is an unofficial term for Judges, some legally mandated, some improperly, which have become reknown for their eagerness to hand out harsh sentences, especially death by hanging.

Reputed cases of the nickname

• Roy Bean, U.S. justice of the peace
• sir Matthew Baillie Begbie
• Hanging Judge Jeffreys in England
• the hanging judges of Manila known as the Guillotine Club
• Judge Isaac Parker - cfr. Judge Parker, a soap opera-style comic strip
• Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali
• Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton
• Joseph Needham

Other use

• a track on the Sodom album 'Til Death Do Us Unite

See also

• Lynching