Possible Clues:

• Hanged
• Nervous — killed by hanging
• Extremely tense — hanged
• Lynch in the past phoned at the end of street
• Executed last of tasks before time's called
• Puts back ringing Rush for head of Government ¿ that's what nerves do to you
• Like unlucky cattle rustlers
• Be hanged if one puts up with one on a ladder in there
• Tense, nervous
• Nervous, being hanged