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Since reintroduction of death penalty 3 people have been hanged. Hanging is in the states New Hampshire und Washington an option, but main killing method is there the lethal injection, too.

Earlier hanging was a public event.  The gallows were trees und the victims were brought on horseback.....
This method was very cruel because the dead came slowly (they suffocated instead of breaking their neck)

Later people in Britain wanted to make it more ,,human" and so modern hanging is described as a form of art.

From 1949 to 1953 examinded the »Royal Commission of Capital Punishment« the problems of hanging. In the report three things were demanded: humanity, certainty ( Zuverlässigkeit) and decency (Schicklichkeit). In the end they came to the result that the british method is the best.

By hanging two problems appearance: falls the person too fast he gets beheaded, but if he falls too slow he gets strangled.

Americans set the knot behind the left ear, different like the british method, where the knot is set in front of the left lower jaw. By the american method the neck gets lengthened.

Methods of judicial hanging

There are four methods of performing a judicial hanging — the short drop, suspension hanging, the standard drop, and the long drop.

Short drop

The short drop is done by placing the condemned person on the back of a cart, horse, or other vehicle, with the noose around the neck. The vehicle is then moved away leaving the person dangling from the rope. Prior to 1850, it was the main method used.

Suspension hanging

Suspension hanging is similar, except the gallows themselves are movable, so that the noose can be raised once the condemned is in place. This method is currently used in Iran.

Standard drop

The standard drop involves a drop of between four to six feet (1.2 to 1.8 meters) and came into use in the mid 19th century in English-speaking countries and those where judicial systems were under English influence. It was considered an advance on the short drop because it was intended to be sufficient to break the person's neck, causing immediate paralysis and immobilization (and perhaps immediate unconsciousness).

and the Long drop.

United States

The last public hanging legally conducted in the United States (and also the last public execution in the United States) was that of Rainey Bethea, who was publicly hanged on August 14, 1936, in Owensboro, Kentucky. The two largest mass executions in the U.S., of 38 and 13 men at the same time, respectively, were carred out by hanging.


Germany

In the territories occupied by Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1945, strangulation hanging was a preferred means of public execution, although more criminal executions were performed by guillotine than hanging. The most common sentenced were partisans and black marketeers, whose bodies were usually left hanging for long periods of time. There are also numerous reports of concentration camp inmates being hanged. Hanging was continued in post-war occupation in the zone controlled by the U.K., and for Nazi war criminals.

The death penalty in (western) Germany was abolished by the German constitution as adopted in 1949, but the German Democratic Republic did not abolish the death penalty until 1987. The last known execution in East Germany was in 1982, but by gunshot.

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