A gibbet is the name given to an instrument of public execution - including guillotine, executioner's block, impalement stake, hanging gallows, or related scaffold. Gibbeting refers to the use of a ...

Far more than just a method of execution, hanging and gibbeting in the medieval world were designed to inflict lasting pain and public shame. While hanging could be swift, gibbeting often left the ...

Third place on our list of most brutal ways people were sentenced to death goes to Gibbeting that was used when the authorities wanted to send a strong and clear message to the people. This form of ...

It was the last thing I expected to see. A gibbet. In the hallway leading to the washrooms on the main floor of Mackenzie Hall. I was attending a conference in the Hall last week and I’m fairly ...