Posted: 15 August 2019 at 11:30am | IP Logged | 6
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A further comment... the actual manner of death by hanging is a sufficient fall to break the neck, and resulting in a (relatively) quick and painless death. (If you're interested in seeing it in a movie, check out "The Mummy" with Brendan Frasier. The hanging scene shows, "Ah, his neck did not break. Now we get to watch him strangle." Further, trivia about that movie indicates that Frasier's neck nearly did break, and he passed out, hands bound and in a noose.)
There's a reason gallows are so high; to ensure the fall is long enough. That's rarely possible in (for example) a jail cell. Which means that the result is death by asphyxiation, and that's a horrible way to go. As Marc B. noted, it could very easily result in struggling, twisting and turning to get free - and which could easily produce neck damage.
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