If the fall is too short the result may be strangulation which can take up to 45 minutes. If the fall is too long the force exerted on the body can result in decapitation. A modern hanging is carried out on a raised platform called a scaffold or gallows. Immediately prior, the hands and legs are bound and their face is covered. A noose, attached to the scaffold, is placed around the neck with the knot placed behind the left ear.
Ideally, the prisoner dies quickly, but any complication, including a muscular neck or a short drop, can result in strangulation. His legs were strapped together and a hood was placed over his head. In this case, a 6-coil noose was placed on his neck and cinched near the left ear.
At a. He dropped 7 feet into the room below and appeared lifeless almost instantly. According to eyewitness accounts, there was no dancing at the end of the rope, no violent movement nor any twitching. Indeed, hanging advocates frequently point to the quick and relatively painless death that hanging accomplishes.
For my own part, I have reached the conclusion that no people can point to a method which is more beautiful and expeditious, or which is aesthetically superior to the In order for hangings to be done correctly, a relatively methodical regimen must be followed. The inmate should be weighed before the execution date.
A rehearsal using a sandbag roughly the same weight as the condemned should be used to determine the length of the drop necessary to ensure a quick death. Some experts believe a botched hanging, in which the inmate does not die quickly, could last an agonizingly long 45 minutes. The knot should be lubricated with wax or soap "to ensure a smooth sliding action," according to the U.
Army manual. Immediately before the execution, the prisoner's hands and legs are secured, he or she is blindfolded, and the noose is placed around the neck, with the knot behind the left ear. The execution takes place when a trap-door is opened and the prisoner falls through.
Instantaneous death should occur, but death penalty opponents insist that is frequently not the case. There is also a question of "pain," however short-lived. Harold Hillman, a British physiologist and student of executions, says that even when done properly, hanging means that "the dangling person probably feels cervical pain and suffers from an acute headache as a result of the rope closing off the veins of the neck.
Tofte co-authored a piece last fall about lethal injection entitled, "So Long as They Die. Though Human Rights Watch is a strong opponent of the death penalty, Tofte said that the most humane method she's heard of is administering a single, massive dose of barbiturates, essentially drugging the prisoner to death.
While it's mostly painless, she said, this method, "would be a lot harder for the witnesses" because it takes longer for the prisoner to die. An expert panel in California is currently evaluating the method and will issue a report to Governor Schwarzenegger in May. Meanwhile, hanging is the oldest and still most widely used method of execution in the world today, according to a British study on executions. The research goes on to say that at the very least, men and 4 women were hanged in 10 countries during , many in public.
There has not been a hanging execution in the United States since , and only three overall since when the Supreme Court re-instated the death penalty. From trees, to gallows, to stages with trap-doors, hanging continues to be an attempt at a highly visible deterrent.
Again, referring to the British study, there are four main forms of hanging:. Short or no-drop hanging, in which the condemned drops just a few inches and in struggling against the noose, strangles himself. The struggle lasts, on average, one to three minutes. Suspension hanging, in which the condemned is slowly raised by the neck and asphyxiated. Army manual. The Corrections Professional, and Hillman, Immediately before the execution, the prisoner's hands and legs are secured, he or she is blindfolded, and the noose is placed around the neck, with the knot behind the left ear.
The execution takes place when a trap-door is opened and the prisoner falls through. The prisoner's weight should cause a rapid fracture-dislocation of the neck. However, instantaneous death rarely occurs.
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