Gallows a broken neck rather than through strangulation, especially if extra weights were fixed to their ankles. During the era of public execution in London, England, a prominent gallows stood at Tyburn, on what is now Marble Arch. Later executions occurred outside Newgate Prison, where the Old Bailey now stands. Gallows A gallows (or scaffold) is a frame, typically wooden, from which objects can be hung or “weighed.” Gallows were thus widely used for public weighing scales for large objects such as sacks of grain or minerals, usually positioned in markets or toll gates. The term was also used for a
Execution of Carey Dean Moore Execution of Carey Dean Moore The execution of Carey Dean Moore was the execution by lethal injection of Carey Dean Moore (October 26, 1957 – August 14, 2018) by the state of Nebraska, a sub-national entity of the United States. It was the first execution in Nebraska using lethal injection, and the first use of capital punishment in Nebraska since 1997. The execution was the first in the United States to use fentanyl. The execution took place on August 14, 2018 at the Nebraska State Penitentiary, where Moore had been a prisoner since his conviction for killing two cab drivers