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Hanging in chains

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In atrocious cases it was at one time usual, in England, for the court to direct a murderer, after execution, to be hanged upon a gibbet in chains near the place where the murder was committed, a practice quite contrary to the Mosaic law. (Deut. xxi. 23.) Abolished by 4 & 5 Wm. IV. c.

26. Wharton.