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To: strategofr

..a real hanging with a modern rope and an auxiliary wire noose to make sure.
We make execution too nice to be a deterrent, and juvies should be eligible.


380 posted on 12/13/2005 1:10:41 PM PST by steve8714
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To: steve8714

"..a real hanging with a modern rope and an auxiliary wire noose to make sure."

I'm not sure what you mean. On TV cowboy shows, hanging was somebody dropping straight down into a trap door and having their neck broken. Pretty much instantly.

In Zane Gray books, they sit the bad guy on a horse, put the noose around his neck, through the other end of the rope over a very strong tree limb, and have somebody, probably on a horse I guess, back away from the person to be executed, very quickly.

The person to be executed ends up going into going up in the air and their horse walks or runs away. In the books, it seemed like a person spent maybe a minute or two writhing around, providing space to breathe, then died, I'm not sure what of, exactly, strangling possibly, or a broken neck.


429 posted on 12/13/2005 5:39:16 PM PST by strategofr
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