gallows tree

One pictured a gallows tree; and, turning from that image, one pictured a firing squad at sunrise.

By order of the court his body was disinterred and decapitated under the gallows-tree.

And still the gallows stood on the Field of Sleep, and also a big elm tree which sometimes served as the "gallows tree."

The gallows-tree on the virgin soil of Australia flourished and bore fruit in abundance.

By the Sheriff's castle, out upon the roadway, they have built an angled gallows-tree to bear the four of them at once.