Hanging and Gibbeting: A Medieval Torture of Unbearable Pain & Humiliation

Medieval Madness - A podcast by Hit The Lights

Probably the most common form of execution and the first one that people think about in regard to Medieval executions, hanging was the usual method of capital punishment for the Anglo Saxons. Other means of execution have been implemented but none of them has been so common and used for so many centuries in Europe, as death by hangman.