Under the lifeless gaze of the town’s founder, so-called criminals are led to the ramshackle gallows to answer for their transgressions, real or perceived. Hastily cobbled together—in a paranoid mania—from the battered timbers of an abandoned barn, this grim construction stands as testament to the true fragility of civilization. People do not know what evils they are truly capable of until adversity lays them low.
