Translation guide
Refers to the location where a death sentence is carried out. In Japanese, this is typically expressed with specific terms for execution grounds or chambers, with distinctions between historical and modern contexts.
That place of execution is now a park.
A more formal or literary term for an execution ground, often used in legal or historical texts.
A monument was erected on the site of the former place of execution.
Specifically the room where executions are carried out in a prison, as in contemporary Japan.
Famous historical sites where executions were carried out, often with specific names.
処刑場 is a broad term for any execution site, often historical, while 死刑執行室 specifically refers to the modern execution chamber inside a prison.
死刑場には絞首台がある。
There is a gallows in the execution chamber.
仕置場で罪人が処刑された。
The criminal was executed at the place of execution.