Execution equipment

thumb|The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals|international pictogram for poisonous substances. The skull and crossbones has long been a standard symbol for poison.

thumb|The guillotine used in Luxembourg between 1798 and 1821 A guillotine ( ) is an apparatus designed for effectively carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled blade suspended at the top. The condemned person is secured with a pillory at the bottom of the frame, holding the position of the neck directly below the blade. The blade is then released, swiftly and forcefully decapitating the victim with a single, clean pass; the head falls into a basket or other receptacle below.

execution method

thumb|Unidentified men wait at the gallows before execution of List of people executed in Texas, 1910–1919|Melquiades Chapa and Jose Buenrostro on May 19, 1916, in [[Brownsville, Texas.]] thumb|right|A hangman positions the noose around the neck of a Japanese war crimes|Japanese war criminal as he is held steady by a British military officer just prior to his execution by hanging at the gallows in [[Changi Prison in Singapore 1946. The condemned man is standing within a circle on the trapdoor, and on either side of him are two other circles indicating that the gallows had the provision for mul

sealed room into which gas is pumped in, causing death by poisoning or asphyxiation

torture device used for capital punishment

vehicle equipped as a mobile gas chamber for the purpose of conducting mass murder

thumb|A 1901 execution at the old Manila City Jail|Bilibid Prison, [[Manila, Philippines]]

execution site for public executions

type of knot

a pit of snakes

usually a two-handed sword used as an executioner's tool of trade

thumb|The reconstructed gallows-style gibbet at [[Caxton Gibbet, in Cambridgeshire, England]] Gibbeting is the use of a gallows-type structure from which the dead or dying bodies of criminals were hanged on public display to deter other existing or potential criminals. Occasionally, the gibbet () was also used as a method of public execution, with the criminal being left to die of exposure, thirst and/or starvation. The practice of placing a criminal on display within a gibbet is also called hanging in chains.

Torture device

equipment used for the execution of religious figure Jesus Christ

execution device

execution machinery in Yorkshire, England

manual on the appropriate length of rope for long-drop hangings, formerly used in the UK and remaining in use in countries such as Singapore

Nickname for electric chairs

car for executions in China