Execution Place is a General codex entry in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
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Execution places were situated on hilltops, at crossroads and out of town, as they were considered unclean. These were deserted places that everyone avoided; no craftsman would work nearby for fear of losing his reputation. The only one to be seen thereabouts was the executioner, who often lived near the site. Common folk would approach the gallows or execution place for the sole purpose of witnessing an execution. Executions became popular folk entertainment, often with the whole town gathering to watch. But sentencing to capital punishment was a right granted only to selected towns, and by no means all of them had their own executioner.
