I really wonder about the world these days...
I saw a performance of the opera Billy Budd that ends with a hanging and I remember thinking, that actor is taking a risk. Even with a safety harness. I went back for a second performance two days later and they had somebody else playing the role. A last-minute substitution and unknown. I always wondered about that.
Michael J Fox was just about killed in one of the back to the future movies when he back in time to the Old West.
Story appearing on Castle/Law & Order in 5,4,3...
I almost went into a coma after being subjected to the horrendous writing in this piece.
Unfortunately, body harnesses do not always work as planned:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAPKepDA50k
What gets me is with a little clever engineering, why would one even consider using an actual noose?!? What are these people, infants?!? So many ways to work out an effective portrayal without killing someone.