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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

I'm glad he's gone, but may God have mercy on his soul.

Now a question: in a drop hanging like this is death instantaneous?


104 posted on 12/30/2006 4:08:51 PM PST by GeorgiaGuy
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To: GeorgiaGuy
I'm glad he's gone, but may God have mercy on his soul. Now a question: in a drop hanging like this is death instantaneous?

FWIW, I agree on both counts.

More than you may care to know, about hanging, here:

http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/hanging2.html

The processes of judicial hanging

110 posted on 12/30/2006 4:16:29 PM PST by backhoe (Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
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