execution site
Where condemned die
An execution site is a location where people are put to death, typically by state authority.
The term appears in historical and archaeological contexts describing places where executions occurred: Researchers discovered a medieval execution site outside the city walls.
It can also refer to contemporary locations where capital punishment is carried out.
- gallowsExecution hanging apparatus
- scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
- guillotineVertical beheading apparatus
- chopping blockSurface for cutting meat
- electric chairElectrocution execution device
firing squad · hangman · noose · blade · condemned · last meal · dead man walking · green mile · last words · final moments · witness · hood · block · axe · lethal injection · lethal chamber · death penalty · chamber
execution sitematernity ward
Hospital section for childbirth
birthing center · hospital · delivery room · neonatal unit · trauma center
execution siteprison cell
Locked room for inmates
holding cell · jail · detention center · death row · penitentiary
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