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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]
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.
Als Erhängen wird die Tötung eines Menschen durch Aufhängen in einer – in der Regel laufenden (d. h. sich durch den Zug des Körpergewichts zusammenziehenden) – um den Hals gelegten Schlinge bezeichnet, wobei die Schlingenbildung durch einen geeigneten Knoten, eine Öse o. ä. erreicht wird.
Nuremberg executions. The Nuremberg executions took place on 16 October 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg trials. Ten prominent members of the political and military leadership of Nazi Germany were executed by hanging: Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred ...
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The execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein took place on 30 December 2006. Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging , after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the Dujail massacre —the killing of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail —in 1982, in retaliation for an ...
As the United States began to expand west, most new states favored the death penalty, and hanging continued to be the most popular means of execution. In addition, disregarding the trend set by many northern states, these states would hang criminals for offenses like robbery and rape.
