gallows

[BlackPhoenix]

While I don't think 'creepy' is the right word, I can see the reasoning there. With a stockade you get more station participation, the victim is thoroughly embarrassed, and there's a chance they can escape and swear revenge. The gallows, like the lethal injection IV bag and the electric chair to a lesser extent, is generally forgotten and only brought out when officers want to roleplay an extended torture/execution largely for their own fun, while the victim gets weirded out/bored and quits. I also think there's a kind of tonal disconnect when a new officer signs up, is told to try to detain criminals nonlethally if possible and not jump straight to killing, then walks past a murder dungeon on their way to the weapons.

Eh, get rid of the weirdos who try to make it more than it should be, and make it have to be constructed like the electric chair so new folks don't get confused.