Hanging was a common medieval execution, but for certain criminals, punishment did not end with death. After execution, bodies were sometimes placed in iron cages known as gibbets and displayed in ...

More than 70 bodies have now been uncovered at a medieval cemetery used for executed criminals, archaeologists say. The remains of about 40 men and boys, dating back to at least the 13th Century, were ...

A replica of a 13th Century execution device, which was an early type of guillotine, is to be replaced 50 years after it was first erected. The non-working full size oak replica of the Halifax Gibbet, ...