gibbet

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Generations of school children across Halifax are taught the history of its gibbet but a few years ago it fell over due to rot.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2014

"It fell down, I was nearby and I felt it was important," said Mr Haddock, whose offices sit opposite the gibbet site.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2014

The gibbet has long since given way to a graceful fountain, but Pizarro's spirit still inhabits the Plaza de Armas.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, without the dire consequences predicted by Ellenborough, gibbet and gallows were prescribed for fewer & fewer crimes.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Boston, Wendell Phillips, Abolitionist and reformer, commended those who looked “upon that gibbet of John Brown, not as the scaffold of a felon, but as the cross of a martyr.”

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry