methods of hanging in execution which instigate death either by cervical fracture or by strangulation. The short drop is a method of hanging in which the...

Death by Hanging (絞死刑, Kōshikei) is a 1968 Japanese drama film directed by Nagisa Ōshima. It was acclaimed[by whom?] for its innovative Brechtian techniques...

Suicide by hanging is the intentional killing of oneself (suicide) via suspension from an anchor-point such as an overhead beam or hook, by a rope or...

spinal cord are often associated with priapism in living patients. Death by hanging, whether an execution or a suicide, has been observed to affect the...

he became known as a hanging judge. Isaac Parker, perhaps the best-known hanging judge, sentenced 160 men to death by hanging. However, of those 160...

December 2006. Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the Dujail...

like presidents, prime ministers and monarchs, who were sentenced to death by the succeeding regime. List of heads of regimes who were later imprisoned...

imprisonment. Hans Frank – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging Wilhelm Frick – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging Hans Fritzsche – Acquitted. Tried, convicted...

people who died as a result of hanging, including suicides and judicial, extrajudicial, or summary executions. These deaths are notable due to history or...

"Hanging judge" is a colloquial phrase for a judge who has gained notoriety for handing down punishment by sentencing convicted persons to death by hanging...

by hanging Willy Brünning (Gusen) – death by hanging Emil Müller – death by hanging Kurt Keilwtz – death by hanging Franz Kautny – death by hanging Johannes...

The cause of death was ruled to have been suicide, with official postmortem reports confirming Rajput died of asphyxia due to hanging. The Mumbai Police...

November 3, 1947. Four people, including Oswald Pohl, were sentenced to death by hanging. Three were acquitted. The others received sentences of imprisonment...

[by extrajudicial means], is the evidence of inhuman savagery perpetrated by those defendants who as a result of the trial were sentenced to death. The...

to ministers and the jury, being sentenced to "death by hanging until he was dead". He was hanged by John Holmes, Messenger of the Court, on September...

Imperial Japanese Army. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by hanging. Kimura was born in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo, but was raised...

prosecuted by an American military commission in Yokohama in 1948, using evidence presented at the Homma trial. They were sentenced to death by hanging and executed...

November 2006, Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging. On 26 December, Saddam's appeal was rejected and the death sentence upheld. No further appeals were...

camp. Demjanjuk was found guilty of war crimes and was sentenced to death by hanging. Exculpatory material in the form of conflicting identifications from...

result in death. Other names for strappado include "reverse hanging", "Palestinian hanging" and il tormento della corda. It was employed by the medieval...

Hussein in 2006, when he sentenced Saddam and some of his top aides to death by hanging. Abd al-Rahman is an ethnic Kurd from Halabja, the site of the 1988...

sentenced him to death by hanging in 1987. Born on 15 December 1950 in Karinthala, Nileswaram, Chandran stopped his studies after the death of his father. Chandran...

Elling Woman, was found in the same bog. The cause of death has been determined to be by hanging. Scholars believe the man was a human sacrifice, rather...

Seoul, it was made by Ōshima after a trip to South Korea. Ōshima directed three features in 1968. The first of these - Death by Hanging (1968) presented...

Ochuka, who was later found guilty of five overt acts and sentenced to death by hanging. Mohamed would remain the Chief of General Staff of the Kenya Defence...

Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery film directed by Peter Weir and based on the 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. Cliff...

thousand camp prisoners at Dachau, of whom hundreds died. Sentenced to death by hanging at the Dachau camp trial after the fall of Hitler's Germany, he was...

Lady Killers. A nursery rhyme concerning Cotton was composed after her hanging on 24 March 1873. Mary Ann Cotton, she's dead and she's rotten Lying in...

guilty of genocide, rape and religious persecution. He was sentenced to death by hanging, sentence subsequently commuted to life imprisonment. Muhammad Kamaruzzaman...

guilty of crimes against humanity. Muhsfeldt was sentenced to death by hanging in December 1947, and executed on 24 January 1948. Erich Muhsfeldt was...