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Gibbeting
Display of executed criminals from a gallows-type structure / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with the Halifax Gibbet, a kind of guillotine.
Gibbeting is the use of a gallows-type structure from which the dead or dying bodies of criminals were hanged on public display to deter other existing or potential criminals. Occasionally, the gibbet (/ˈdʒɪbɪt/) was also used as a method of public execution, with the criminal being left to die of exposure, thirst and/or starvation.[1] The practice of placing a criminal on display within a gibbet[2] is also called "hanging in chains".[3]
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