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gibbet

a wooden structure resembling a gallows, from which the bodies of executed criminals were formerly hanged to public view.
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Artist and photographer Vince Rea, who ran the Bede Gallery in Jarrow for more than 30 years, staged an exhibition on the Jobling case in 1972, which featured a reconstruction of the miner's gibbeted body.