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Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson: Though not as well-known as TJ's earlier work, the Declaration of Independence, this is a revealing portrait of Virginia in 1781, when the state's western boundary extended to the Mississippi and its legal punishments included "death by poison," gibbeting, pillory, and ducking for witchcraft.

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Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson: Though not as well-known as TJ's earlier work, the Declaration of Independence, this is a revealing portrait of Virginia in 1781, when the state's western boundary extended to the Mississippi and its legal punishments included "death by poison," gibbeting, pillory, and ducking for witchcraft.

The Books of the States: Virginia (13 electoral votes; Guest: Tony Horwitz) 2008

As to the spot where the gibbeting took place, the only clue we have is given in Cole's words:

Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

The _Times_ newspaper did good service in _gibbeting_ this precious morceau, supplied by its indefatigable reporter, in its broad sheet.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

That, however, was owing rather to his remorseless gibbeting of the follies and scandals of the Court than to political attack or personal persecution; but other circumstances of a more serious, because of an international, character have now and again attended the publication of

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

Towards the end of the century the horrors of gibbeting, as illustrated in Gatward's case, were tempered somewhat by a method of public execution near the spot where the crime was committed, but, apparently of sparing the victim and his friends the exposure of the body for months afterwards till a convenient "high wind" blew it down.

Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

A specified form of death penalty occurs in the following cases: gibbeting (on the spot where crime was committed) for burglary, later also for encroaching on the king's highway, for getting a slave-brand obliterated, for procuring husband's death; burning for incest with own mother, for vestal entering or opening tavern, for theft at fire (on the spot); drowning for adultery, rape of betrothed maiden, bigamy, bad conduct as wife, seduction of daughter-in-law.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

It walks abroad, it continues its ravages, whilst you are gibbeting the carcase, or demolishing the tomb.

Paras. 225-249 1909

With bubbling yells it came, trampling the undergrowth, drumming on its huge breast, gibbeting with demoniac rage and pain -- came swiftly, like the terrific things that people nightmares.

Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

Buonaparte rejoined, that the first execution of this threat would be instantly followed by the gibbeting of Alvinzi's own nephew, who was in his hands.

The History of Napoleon Buonaparte Lockhart, John G 1906