They would build a gibbet outside of the White House lawn.

Under the low red glare of sunset, the beacon, and the gibbet, and the mound of the Battery, and the opposite shore of the river, were plain, though all of a watery lead colour.

At public hangings, so-called sack-'em-up men "sometimes even yanked people off the gibbet who weren't quite dead yet," Kean writes.

“We are mapping execution sites and also places where bodies were gibbeted, so they are hung in gibbet cages as a warning against crime,” said Jeater.

Every few weeks, until October, 1761, rebellious prisoners were killed or were captured, tried, and executed—sometimes burned alive, sometimes hanged or gibbeted.