The Gibbet, Hanged in Chains
The gibbet was a hanging iron cage used to display the corpses of criminals in 18th and early 19th-century England. To be thus “hanged in chains,” in the judicial jargon and thinking of the day, subjected the criminal to an extra measure of postmortem shaming and offered the general public a rather extravagant cautionary example. Naturally, … Read More Read More The post The Gibbet, Hanged in Chains appeared first on Bone and Sickle.
