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Notes from the Gallows is his account of his imprisonment in Prague, before he was moved to German prisons and executed by hanging in 1943 in Berlin. Fluctuating between testimony and self-reflection, the work deals dramatically and emotively with anti-Nazi resistance, interrogations, and the personalities of fellow inmates and prison guards.
The evidences against her were read, the parties witnessing being present, her answers considered on; and the whole Court being met together, by their vote determined that Mrs. Ann Hibbins is guilty of witchcraft, according to the bill of indictment found against her by the jury of life and death.
Molony stated that the women chronicled in the book had "eloquent yet matter-of-fact voices". [4] Molony argued that the introduction should have had been "expanded", and she criticized the title because almost all of the chronicled women were not put to death; Molony characterized her own criticisms as "minor".
Simon Abrams of The Village Voice gave the film a negative review, saying: "The Gallows is only good enough to make you wish its creators did something novel with its formulaic style, plot, and characterizations." [16] Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times said: "The Gallows starts with a decent if improbable premise, and it ends with a pretty ...
A gallows (or less precisely scaffold) is a frame or elevated beam, typically wooden, from which objects can be suspended or "weighed". Gallows were thus widely used to suspend public weighing scales for large and heavy objects such as sacks of grain or minerals, usually positioned in markets or toll gates.
When Alexander Peden (1626–1686), the persecuted Covenanter, died, he was buried in the Boswell aisle of Auchinleck church; but his corpse was borne thence with every indignity by a company of dragoons to the foot of the gallows at Cumnock, where they intended to hang it in chains. This proving to be impracticable they buried it at the foot ...
Gallows View is the first novel by Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson in the Inspector Banks series of novels. The novel was first printed in 1987, but has been reprinted a number of times since.
The type of gallows on which William Cragh was hanged with Trahaern ap Hywel in 1290, from a fresco painted by Pisanello, 1436–1438. Cragh was hanged on a hill about a quarter mile (400 metres) outside Swansea, in sight of de Briouze's Swansea Castle, [7] on Monday, 27 November 1290.