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Originally Posted by NBBCash Matze
the rope was to long or ? He lost his head and didn't stifled.
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It was a piss poor job. Believe it or not hanging people has been standardized almost world wide and been that way for a century or more. There are 4 ways. - The last will be what his was to be.
Short drop: Person falls a few inches, they struggle and this makes the noose tighten around the persons neck. Eventually this results in either strangulation or a form of choking due to the vagal reflex.
Suspension hanging or reverse hanging: They use a device such as a crane or pulley and lift the person off the ground a few inches. They die in the same method as above.
Standard drop: They drop the person a set height which is anywhere from four to six feet. This may or may not break the persons neck, if not they die again like above. I think we all are used to seeing this type in westerns.
Long drop or Measured hanging: The person will fall when a trapdoor opens. The height they fall is determined by the persons height, weight, and overall physique. It got adjusted over time and now can be figured out by taking 1,000 (force) divided by the persons weight which gives you the length in feet. However the shortest it can be is five feet and the longest is 8 feet. This was perfected by the British and used in India a lot. Also was adopted in the US pretty quick.
In all hangings you want to make sure the knot/loop is under the persons left side of the jaw. This will typically cause a "hangman's fracture".
In his case they used the long drop and did not calculate things properly. You want the body to still be accelerating when it comes to a jerk stop. You just need 1,000 pounds of pressure though to snap a persons neck typically. At around 1,250 pounds you start to see dislocations of the neck. Head past 1,300 and you start to see decapitations. So you can figure out what went wrong - either bad math, vengeance, and well to much of a drop.
I did get curious to see what the common form of hanging was in that region and did not get too much beyond that Saddam adopted the "American style" but did find out that the Taliban likes to use suspension hanging.
There you go, the more you know (insert rainbow). Yet another long post brought to you by useless information a cripple knows.
Who says a early fascination with methods of early execution as a kid would not prove helpful in the future.