"hanging offence" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1908, John Fox Jr., chapter 26, in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine:",
          "text": "Word reached the ear of the prosecuting attorney of the only testimony that could establish a motive and make the crime a hanging offence.",
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          "text": "Since when is it a hanging offense to criticize someone who's not doing the job he's paid generously to do?",
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        "A crime so serious that it is punishable by means of death by hanging."
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        "(idiomatic) A crime so serious that it is punishable by means of death by hanging."
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