Sentences with phrase «body gibbeted»
Mark was hanged and his body gibbeted, and Phillis burned at the stake, at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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«When a man is convicted of a capital offence and is put to death, you shall hang him on a gibbet; but his body shall not remain on the gibbet overnight; you shall bury it on the same day, for a hanged man is offensive in the sight of God.
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A body might remain in the gibbet for many decades, while it gradually fell to pieces.
Gibbeting involved placing the executed body of a malefactor in an iron cage and suspending it from a tall post.