How did you hang yourself?

Hanging is actually divided into hanging and not hanging. Hanging refers to the method of strangling a person with a rope to make him die. Hanging refers to hanging a person's neck in mid-air with a rope and then dying.

Hanging generally refers to the execution of the death penalty. But two situations of hanging can also be used for murder and suicide.

Explaining the death penalty is also called asking for hanging, hanging one's head, etc. If it is used to commit suicide, it is called hanging!

Methods and principles

Generally speaking, hanging a dying person from a tree or a beam is the easiest way. This method is also called hanging.

There is also a method of strangulation like tug-of-war. Two groups of people pull ropes on both sides and strangle the person in the middle.

The reasons for hanging are quite complicated and can be roughly divided into the following categories:

The carotid artery is compressed, which blocks the blood vessels, leading to brain hypoxia and death (the vast majority)

The fracture of cervical vertebra leads to the destruction of the central nervous system (falling from a height, which only happens occasionally when hanging)

Obstruction of trachea leads to asphyxia (although most people think this is the main cause of death, it actually rarely happens)

Heart failure caused by vascular compression (almost impossible)

General situation of suspension

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All countries in the world execute prisoners by hanging. In most cases, people who are hanged are ordinary people (nobles are often beheaded), so hanging is regarded as a symbol of dishonour. So many war criminals who participated in World War II were hanged.

In the history of China, hanging is usually not the lowest death penalty. On the contrary, in order to keep the whole body, senior officials of the royal family generally ask for hanging or hanging, rather than beheading, which may lead to beheading. There are more lenses used now.

Britain once regarded hanging as the first step of its car splitting punishment, and the prisoner would not die at this stage.

Hanging is one of the most commonly used death sentences in almost all ancient civilized nations, which has accompanied all periods of human history.

Because this kind of punishment is simple, direct, easy to operate and economical, more than 80 countries in the world still regard it as the statutory death penalty.

There are three kinds of hanging: the first is to let the prisoner climb on a chair, a table, a train, a horse or a ladder, put a rope around his neck connected with a right-angle bracket or a branch, and then remove the support to make it hang. This method is the most popular and widely used in history. The prisoner died slowly and painfully. The second is to put a ring on the prisoner, pass the rope through the pulley or chute, and then pull the rope hard to lift the prisoner from the ground. The prisoner was actually strangled, which was the preferred method of lynching by the Ku Klux Klan. The same is true of public hanging in Islamic countries in the Middle East. The other is considered more humane after being improved by the British, but it needs some facilities: scaffolding fixed at a certain height and twitchable boards. As soon as the board is pulled during execution, the prisoner's body will fall down. Generally speaking, his cervical vertebra will break, leading to suffocation and cerebral anemia. The prisoner will scream in a few minutes at most!

However, even such a perfect suspension is not satisfactory. 1927, two British death row prisoners were released from the gallows after execution. 15 minutes later, they started breathing again, so they had to hang up again quickly for another 30 minutes. Later, it was found that the ratio of the prisoner's weight to the length of the sling was the key to the rapid fracture of the cervical spine. So the executioner has a data index table in his hand. For example, if a person weighing 80 kilograms falls from a height of 2.4 meters, the rope will be shortened by 5 centimeters for every 3 kilograms of weight increase ... Of course, the thickness of the executed person's neck is also very important. If we ignore this problem, we will make an embarrassing joke. As a result, the prisoner can't be hanged immediately or the prisoner's head is dragged away, which is not what an executioner who wants to win applause wants to see. The special treatment of hanging will also vary from region to region. For example, Turks are keen to hang people on big iron hooks; Before the American Civil War, the tethers that hung slaves were located at the chest ribs; When Persia was upside down, the ancient Romans ingeniously hung human hair and genitals. ...