The Mayor of Casterbridge
Where was the town's gallows?
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The gallows were located in the Amphitheatre.
Apart from the sanguinary nature of the games originally played therein, such incidents attached to its past as these: that for scores of years the town-gallows had stood at one corner; that in 1705 a woman who had murdered her husband was half-strangled and then burnt there in the presence of ten thousand spectators.