gibbeting
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thumb|The reconstructed gallows-style gibbet at [[Caxton Gibbet, in Cambridgeshire, England]] 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 () was also used as a method of public execution, with the criminal being left to die of exposure, thirst and/or starvation. The practice of placing a criminal on display within a gibbet is also called hanging in chains.
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- Variants
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- Antiquity
- Bermuda
- Canada
- Colony of New South Wales
- England
- Germany
- The Netherlands
- Iran
- Malta
- United States
- Last recorded gibbetings
- Afghanistan
- Australia
- United Kingdom
- In popular culture
- See also
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thumb|The reconstructed gallows-style gibbet at [[Caxton Gibbet, in Cambridgeshire, England]] 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 () was also used as a method of public execution, with the criminal being left to die of exposure, thirst and/or starvation. The practice of placing a criminal on display within a gibbet is also called hanging in chains.
== Display == left|thumb|upright|William Kidd|Captain Kidd, who was tried and executed for piracy, hanging in chains thumb|upright|A gibbet with a Mannequin|dummy inside
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