"necktie party" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1904, B. M. Bower, “The Lamb”, in The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories",
          "text": "\"I expect I'll have an invite to a necktie-party some day. . . . I'm always afraid the wrong necktie will be mine. Were you ever lynched?\"",
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          "ref": "1910, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 3, in A Texas Ranger",
          "text": "I made my jail break just in time to keep from being invited as chief guest to a necktie party.",
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          "ref": "1958 July 21, “Foreign Relations: Back from Russia”, in Time",
          "text": "One peasant threw a grass rope over a hook high on the pole. Said Shupe: \"It sure looked like a necktie party was being organized. I had no doubt they were going to hang me.\"",
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          "ref": "2011 January 17, Paul Andersen, “Cultural necrophilia”, in Aspen Times, USA, retrieved 2011-06-30",
          "text": "Last week, my 17-year-old son and I went to see the movie True Grit. . . . A triple hanging kicks the thing off with a snap as three corpses jerk violently from the gallows. The necktie party is followed by shootings, stabbings and a smorgasbord of violence.",
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        "An execution by hanging, especially a lynching."
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