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  2. Notes from the Gallows - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Patibular fork - Wikipedia

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    Patibular forks on a hill, after 1480. A patibular fork was a gallows that consisted of two or more columns of stone, with a horizontal beam of wood resting on top. Placed high and visible from the main public thoroughfare, it signalled the seat of high justice, the number of stone columns indicating the holder's title.

  4. John Greenwood (divine) - Wikipedia

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    On 5 December 1592 he was again arrested; and in March 1593 he was tried, together with Barrowe, and condemned to death on a charge of "devising and circulating seditious books." After two respites, one at the foot of the gallows, [2] he was hanged on May 23, 1593, in Tyburn, Middlesex.

  5. Execution Dock - Wikipedia

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    Just like the execution procession to Tyburn, condemned prisoners were allowed to drink a quart of ale at a public house on the way to the gallows. An execution at the dock usually meant that crowds lined the river's banks or chartered boats moored in the Thames to get a better view of the hanging.

  6. Dule tree - Wikipedia

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    This was traditionally the gallows tree for the barony. [25] Tushielaw Tower gallows tree, parish of Ettrick in the Scottish borders. The tree was an ash tree in the ruins of Tushielaw Tower on which Adam Scott, the 'King of the Thieves', was hanged on the orders of James V. [25] Lynstock near Abernethy, Perth and Kinross. An ancient fir still ...

  7. Gallows - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Cumnock and Holmhead - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Letters from Beneath the Gallows - Wikipedia

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    The Letters from the Beneath the Gallows were written in a patriotic tone, calling on Belarusians to resist the Russian Empire by any means. In the first letter, Kalinowski criticises the concept of the All-Russian nation and calls for unity between Jews (referred to by Kalinowski in the letters as "the brother" [c]) and Belarusians, criticising pogroms and antisemitism as driving Jews to ...