Tower of London’s execution site

While the Tower of London has a grim history of death and torture, most of the deaths actually took place outside the Tower, on a plot of land that is today marked by a small memorial.That the deaths took place outside is that they were a public spectacle, and thousands of people would throng to come and see a traitor executed. Contrary to popular opinion, public executions were fairly rare, and even less so for traitors, so people would clamour to be allowed to watch one take place.
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