And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is to be put to death, and you hang him on a tree:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Gibbet. Whether the person was first killed, as the Jews assert, or he was left to die upon the gibbet, see Calmet's Diss. It is also a matter of doubt, whether he was nailed to the gibbet, or hung on it by a rope. (Bonfrere)