1) Execution equipment 2) Execution method
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A gibbet t is any instrument of public execution (including guillotine, executioner`s block, impalement stake, hanging gallows, or related scaffold), but gibbeting refers to the use of a gallows-type structure from which the dead or dying bodies of executed criminals were hung on public display to deter other existing or potential criminals. In e....
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• (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gibbet
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The practice of exhibiting the bodies of executed felons in chains at public crossroads to deter others. Highwaymen, smugglers and rioters were most often punished in this way. The practice was at...
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