A gallows (or less precisely scaffold) is a frame or elevated beam, typically wooden, from which objects can be suspended or "weighed". Gallows were thus widely used to suspend public …

Jayne Williams of Rutland County Museum on a set of gallows used to execute five men in Oakham in the early nineteenth century. These gallows are what’s known as the New Drop, a …

Jan 7, 2019 · Some of the executioner’s interesting tools of the 1700 and 1800s were the axe and block, sword, wheel, gallows, and the guillotine. The axe was one of the first tools used by …

From 1873 through 1896, eighty-six men were executed on the gallows at Fort Smith. All the men executed were convicted of rape or murder. After the Civil War, there was a mandatory federal …

The gallows in the execution shed at Wandsworth prison around 1900 (see picture), is one of the very few to have been actually photographed - you can see the lever, open trap and one of the …

As a form of capital punishment, hanging was introduced to Britain by the Germanic Anglo-Saxon tribes as early as the fifth century. The gallows were an important element in Germanic culture.

Using gallows with a trap door did not become common until the 1870s. Before that, most were hanged from a tree branch, turned off the back of a cart, or from a horse. Pilgrims holding …

Sep 26, 2007 · Gallows were widely used in America to execute the convicted. In 19th-century Virginia, the courts’ jurisdiction was in flux regarding capital punishment. By 1828, capital …

The Roman gallows was the cross, and, in the older translations of the Bible, gallows was used to describe the cross upon which Jesus was crucified (Ulfilas uses the term galga in his Gothic …

It has demonstrated that the theatre of the gallows was a public spectacle that could generate a diverse range of behaviours and reactions on the part of the central actors, the condemned …