To gibbet means to extend the punishment beyond death – to wrap the corpse of the wrongdoer in chains or put it in a cage and then display the .... 19 The cage is the most visually arresting element of the gibbet. Though the punishment was also known as hanging in chains, the gibbets used by civil .... The gibbeting-cage was designed and allowed, under the Murder Act, to punish more heinous offences such as muder, piracy, and smuggling..

Download Images of - Free for commercial use, no attribution required. From: Photograph of the skeleton and chains used to gibbet a man convicted of murder ....