are maintained by Arizona State Parks.]]]]A gallows is a frame, typically wooden, used for execution by hanging. A gallows can take several forms. The simplest (as often used in the game "Hangman") resembles an inverted "L", with a single upright and a horizontal beam to which the rope noose would be attached. In other designs, the horizontal crossbeam is supported at both ends. The infamous Tyburn gallows was triangular in plan, with three uprights and three crossbeams, allowing up to 24 People to be executed along all three sides.The apparatus can be permanent, as a deterrent and grim symbol of the power of high justice (indeed, the French word for gallows, potence, stems from the Latin potentia, meaning "power"). Many old prints of British and European cities show such a permanent gallows erected on a prominent hill outside the walls, or more commonly near the castle or other seat of justice. In the modern era the gallows were often inst

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