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Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature. Hanging has been a common method of capital punishment since the Middle Ages, and is the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. The first known account of execution by hanging is in Homer 's Odyssey. [1]
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This is a list of people who died as a result of hanging, including suicides and judicial, extrajudicial, or summary executions. These deaths are notable due to history or due to media exposure. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Execution. Hepnarová was executed by short-drop hanging on 12 March 1975 at Pankrác Prison in Prague. She was the last woman executed in Czechoslovakia, and one of the last by the use of short-drop hanging. There are disputes over how Hepnarová faced death.
' of the head ', derived via the Latin capitalis from caput, "head") refers to execution by beheading, but executions are carried out by many methods, including hanging, shooting, lethal injection, stoning, electrocution, and gassing.
Hanging, execution or murder by strangling or breaking the neck by a suspended noose. Traditional methods involve suspending victims from a gallows or crossbeam or having them fall through a trapdoor until stopped by a rope tied around their neck, which breaks the cervical vertebrae.
