Crime and Punishment in Edinburgh

Many of Edinburgh's more unsavory characters spent their final days behind this door while awaiting their executions.

A pair of stones embedded in an Edinburgh street memorialize one of the city's last public hangings.

A medieval device used to punish and shame wrongdoers still hangs outside the village church.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.