The first known gallows was in 1873 and was first used to hang prisoners. There is a newspaper article that still exists that tells the public about the making of the gallows and what its intentions were.
Web definition for gallows an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging See the Related Link below for pictures of gallows.
Paul Revere didn't die at the gallows. He died at home, at what was considered a ripe old age at his time. The gallows is a place of execution, traditionally by hanging.
No there was no prison on gallows hill. There was one on Blockhouse Hil though.
In Protestant England and America, witchcraft was considered to be a felony and the punishment for a felony was hanging. On the Continent of Europe, witchcraft was heresy, and the heresy penalty was death by burning.
Merchant Lyte asked for the death penalty on the gallows. He said "the gallows had been too long empty." This is found on page 82 at the end of the second full paragraph.
I learned that Gallows plural is gallows or gallowses
He will be sent to the gallows for his crimes.He was hung from the gallows at noon yesterday.
The gallows pole
These gallows remain unused.
Gallows Thief was created in 2003.
Gallows View was created in 1987.
Gallows is a plural noun. It has no singular form.
The Gallows Bird was created in 2006.
Gallows Thief has 384 pages.
The duration of Elevator to the Gallows is 1.47 hours.
It became increasingly difficult for me to enjoy his gallows humor.
Alexander Graham Bell invented the gallows telephone.