gibbet

• Bound hand and foot, under an escort of thirty men, the next morning we set off to cross the deserts and prairies of Senora, to gain the Mexican capital, where we well knew that a gibbet was to be our fate Such was the grateful return we received from those who had called us to their assistance. —  Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet
• Below, on the solid ground, stakes with chains were driven into the ground; while near the gibbet was a post with a chain in which those who were to be mercifully strangled before being thrown into the flames were to be placed. —  The Ferryman of Brill and other stories
• Jesus completely represented Him, and this broken body on the gibbet was the inevitable result. —  Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking
• They erected on the instant a gibbet before the door of the wretched mother, and there her sons were hung Her cottage was built at the foot of a craggy, naked rock, on a strip of green pasture land, and beside a mountain torrent; the gibbet was a few paces from it, on the edge of the shelf; and the setting rays of a bright summer sun fell on the bodies of the widow's sons. —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 279, October 20, 1827
• Bound hand and foot, under an escort of thirty men, the next morning we set off to cross the deserts and prairies of Sonora, to gain the Mexican capital, where we well knew that a gibbet was to be our fate Such was the grateful return we received from those who had called us to their assistance[17]. —  Monsieur Violet

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