gibbeted

In ancient Assyria, such miscreants were gibbeted, or impaled between the legs, on the sharp top of a pole planted upright in the ground, their screams heard for miles as their own body weight slowly drove the stake into them until they died.

Obama's military victory. Ann Althouse 2009

“What avails it to me that I have been of late the envoy of princes, when, ere night, I shall be a gibbeted and dishonoured corpse?”

The Talisman 2008

"Jesus was a man, of illegitimate birth, of a benevolent heart, and an enthusiastic mind, who set out without pretensions of divinity, ended in believing them, and was punished capitally for sedition by being gibbeted according to the Roman law."

Global Democracy and the Rise of the King of Darkness de Brantigny........................ 2008

Three years afterwards, his bones were dug up and gibbeted by the command of the

The Monastery 2008

"Jesus was a man, of illegitimate birth, of a benevolent heart, and an enthusiastic mind, who set out without pretensions of divinity, ended in believing them, and was punished capitally for sedition by being gibbeted according to the Roman law."

Archive 2008-02-03 de Brantigny........................ 2008

Cormac, left on the moor of Thorn and in Rochinroy Wood; and as many were gibbeted at Houghmanstares, which has still the name from the hangman work that was done there.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

*--I wonder how modern children and parents would react to the parenting techniques in The History of the Fairchild Family, although I suppose that some would think that a trip to see a decaying, gibbeted corpse would be, well, totally awesome.

Death, gloom, etc. 2007

*--I wonder how modern children and parents would react to the parenting techniques in The History of the Fairchild Family, although I suppose that some would think that a trip to see a decaying, gibbeted corpse would be, well, totally awesome.

The Little Professor: 2007

Men spoke to him of the mild beams of Christian charity, and where they pointed he saw only the yellow glare of the stake; they talked of the gentle solace of Christian faith, and he heard only the shrieks of the thousands and tens of thousands whom faithful Christian persecutors had racked, strangled, gibbeted, burned, broken on the wheel.

Voltaire 2007

The dead they buried on the Borough Muir; the living who had concealed the sickness were drowned, if they were women, in the Quarry Holes, and if they were men, were hanged and gibbeted at their own doors; and wherever the evil had passed, furniture was destroyed and houses closed.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005