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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. Hanging is also a method of suicide.
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.
In 1862 President Abraham Lincoln sanctioned the hanging of 39 Sioux Indians convicted of murdering white settlers in Mankato, Minnesota. This mass execution remains the largest of its kind in United States history. Four people were hanged for their participation in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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.
Hanging. Until the 1890s, hanging was the primary method of execution used in the United States. Hanging was still authorized in Delaware and Washington before those states abolished the death penalty in 2016 and 2018, although both had lethal injection as an alternative method of execution.
The Jan. 5, 1993, hanging was the first legal execution by that method since 1965, when Kansas executed George York and James Latham, who were famously associated with Richard Eugene Hickock...
13 de may. de 2015 · A Brief History of American Executions. From hanging to lethal injection. By Matt Ford. June 2015 Issue. Library of Congress. Hanging is perhaps the quintessential American punishment. In the...
