People with ropes around their necks don't always hang.
4 seconds sound clip from the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:26:33 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Hey, Luke, hand me down a whiskey.
- And the sheriff's office in Sonora.
- The condemned hired himself out as a guide to a wagon train.
- Glad they got him, a man guilty of all those crimes.
- People with ropes around their necks don't always hang.
- Even a filthy beggar like that has got a protecting angel.
- A golden-haired angel watches over him.
- For all these crimes, the accused has made a full, spontaneous confession.
- Therefore, we condemn him to be hung by the neck until dead.
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