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This is a list of people who died as a result of hanging, including suicides and judicial, extrajudicial, or summary executions. These deaths are notable due to history or due to media exposure.
Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature. Hanging has been a common method of capital punishment since the Middle Ages, and is the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. The first known account of execution by hanging is in Homer's Odyssey. Hanging is also a method of suicide.
hanging India: 20 March 2020: Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma: gang rape and murder: hanging Indonesia: 29 July 2016: Freddy Budiman, Seck Osmane, Michael Titus Igweh and Humphrey Ejike drug offences: firing squad Iran: 21 February 2024: Ahmad Esmaili drug offences: hanging Iraq: 25 August 2023
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth (1685) – Beheading by axe. Jack Ketch took between five and eight strokes to behead him. William Duell (1740) – Hanging (attempted). Survived the execution after being left hanging by the neck for around 20 minutes. Sentence commuted to transportation.
The Wild West. As the United States began to expand west, most new states favored the death penalty, and hanging continued to be the most popular means of execution. In addition, disregarding the trend set by many northern states, these states would hang criminals for offenses like robbery and rape.
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Changi Prison, where Singapore's death row is located Capital punishment in Singapore is a legal penalty. Executions in Singapore are carried out by long drop hanging, and usually take place at dawn. Thirty-three offences—including murder, drug trafficking, terrorism, use of firearms and kidnapping —warrant the death penalty under Singapore law. In 2012, Singapore amended its laws to ...