send to the scaffold

verb2

1. •
   To sentence to be hanged.

   • The unfortunate widow of Louis XVI. was the first who was sent to the scaffold by the sanguinary tribunal of the revolution. — 1872
2. •
   To cause someone to be condemned to be hanged.

   • I understand, of course, why you are anxious to get this thing without disagreeable consequences to yourself. You regard it as one of the links in a chain that may some day send you to the scaffold. — 1896