Editing Gallows (section)

===Horse and cart===
Hanging people from early gallows sometimes involved fitting the noose around the person's [[neck]] while he or she was on a ladder or in a horse-drawn cart underneath. Removing the ladder or driving the cart away left the person dangling by the neck to slowly strangle. A noted example of this type of execution in the USA was the hanging of British spy [[John André]] in 1780.

Later, a "scaffold" with a [[trapdoor]] tended to be used, so victims dropped down and died quickly from a broken neck rather than through [[strangulation]], especially if extra weights were fixed to their ankles.

During the era of public execution in [[London]], England, a prominent gallows stood at [[Tyburn]], on what is now [[Marble Arch]]. Later executions occurred outside [[Newgate Prison]], where the [[Old Bailey]] now stands.