Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Halifax Gibbet was an early guillotine, or decapitating machine, used in the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. Its first recorded use was in 1286 and the last in 1650, between which dates 53 men and women were executed using the device. Halifax had held the right to execute criminals since 1280. Although there is early reference to a gibbet, including a report that the first person to be beheaded by it was John of Dalton in 1286, formal records of victims did not begin until 1541, when the town acquired a fixed machine which used a heavy axe-shaped iron blade dropping from a height of several feet to cut off the head of the condemned criminal. Only one man by the name of John Lacy is recorded to have escaped his execution by the Halifax Gibbet; however he returned to Halifax 7 years later where he was summarily apprehended and executed.

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