Sentences with phrase «gibbeting in»

After identifying the dominance of penal dissection throughout the period, it looks at the abandonment of burning at the stake in the 1790s, the rapid decline of hanging in chains just after 1800, and the final abandonment of both dissection and gibbeting in 1832 and 1834.

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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.

Dorothy Sayers writes: We can not blink at the fact that gentle Jesus meek and mild was so stiff in his opinions and so inflammatory in his language that he was thrown out of church, stoned, hunted from place to place, and finally gibbeted as a firebrand and a public danger.

Growth in biological terms is the process by which the body builds a gibbet of protein and fills this in -LSB-...]

This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting («hanging in chains»), since the nineteenth century.

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.

Yet ever since heinous acts long ago led to the invention of the gibbet and the noose, we have been finding ways to constrain the «evildoers» (I love that phrase) in our midst.

nbnbc (Sep 28, 2013 at 12:44 PM): my riposte was tongue - in - cheek, too — look up what the Halifax gibbet is... A precursor of the guillotine, but the same principle (though without the knitting).

«These were the days before CV blind policies, and his dismissal of my university choice was withering — the «Hull, Hell and Halifax» reference is actually from The Beggar's Litany and lists the three things thieves in the 17th century feared most — hell, for obvious reasons, the Hull jail and the Halifax gibbet — a particularly nasty execution tool.