Gallows

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