Why damn my eyes,Cap'n, You would even maroon a man on a spit of an island. With his sea chest, his musket and bible and all. He would have to live with the certainty of a slow death. Else be picked up by Spaniards and tortured.
Seriously though. The middle ages had the "iron maiden", I saw one at Madam Tussauds. It was a gibbet, but with spikes that closed in, when the live person was shoved inside. Makes Camp Gitmo look like a 18 century retirement home for their lud'ships.
I have the opportunity to amend my hasty post. It was on Wimbledon Common, that Jerry Abbershaw, highwayman was gibbeted 1795. The bareknuckle contest was in 1800.(Belcher vs Gamble). Hard by the gibbet.