Definition of "necklacing" []

• Present participle of necklace. (verb)
• A method of informal execution in which a rubber tyre is filled with petrol, placed around the victim's chest and arms, and set on fire. (noun)

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• "HB points to "necklacing" - I suppose to pretend that the ANC dealt as ruthlessly with its political opponents as Hamas does - but this was a very short-lived phenomenon, that was loudly denounced by the ANC leadership, even if briefly supported by the shrill farrago that is Winnie Mandela."
• "States and other African countries to denounce the so-called necklacing inside South Africa."
• "Even the horrific, apartheid-era practice of "necklacing" – in which ANC sympathizers placed tires doused in gasoline around the necks of suspected collaborators and set them aflame – returned."