Gallows
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A gallows is a frame or elevated beam, typically wooden, from which objects can be suspended or "weighed". Gallows were thus widely used to suspend public weighing scales for large and heavy objects s
Unidentified men wait at the gallows before execution of Melquiades Chapa and Jose Buenrostro on May 19, 1916, in Brownsville, Texas.
A hangman positions the noose around the neck of a Japanese war criminal as he is held steady by a British military officer just prior to his execution by hanging at the gallows in Changi Prison in Singapore 1946. The condemned man is standing within a circle on the trapdoor, and on either side of him are two other circles indicating that the gallows had the provision for multiple simultaneous executions.
Illustration of hanging during the Thirty Years' War
These gallows in Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park are maintained for historical purposes by Arizona State Parks.
Gibbet of Montfaucon
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The Gibbet of Montfaucon was the main gallows and gibbet of the Kings of France until the time of Louis XIII. It was used to execute criminals, often traitors, by hanging and to display their dead bod
Gallows
…a prominent gallows stood at Tyburn, on what is now Marble Arch. Later executions occurred outside Newgate Prison, where the Old Bailey now stands. Gibbet of Montfaucon Hangman's Elm…
Detail from the Grandes Chroniques de France, by Jean Fouquet, about 1460
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572, by François Dubois. The two top corners represent Montmartre with a windmill at left, and the Gibbet of Montfaucon on an equally steep and empty hill at right.