Public executions

thumb|A 15th-century depiction of Jesus crucified between [[the two thieves]]

Jesus' crucifixion as described in the four canonical gospels

execution method from Asia

massacre

major event of the French Revolution

1968 photograph by Eddie Adams

German mass killing in France, 1944

Ottoman persecution of the Greek community of Constantinople

form of capital punishment carried out publicly

Japanese general (1889-1947)

Iran wrestler

execution of 27 Czech Protestant leaders on Prague's Old Town Square

1649 beheading of Charles I of England

1600 public execution of Swedish nobles

heritage-listed former penal site and defensive facility in Sydney Harbour, Australia

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.

Uprising by Shia tribesmen

public hangings of 14 alleged Israeli spies in Iraq

mass extrajudicial killing of Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar

special ad hoc trials organized by the Turkish National Movement