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a stage built so death could be watched by a paying crowd.
crowd magnetpublic hangings drew festival-sized crowds for centuries
the droplonger falls calculated by weight to snap necks cleanly
dark humorgallows humor named for jokes told facing death
Haman's ironybiblical Haman hanged on gallows he built for another
final moveBritain hanged its last criminals in 1964