execution-style

[Jonathan Lighter]

Observe how "execution-style" can never refer to strapping them into an
electric chair, injecting them, gullotining them, etc.

It alludes not to legal executions but to "gangland-style" rubouts and
fascist/communist-style mass killings.

JL

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 2:10 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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