Hanged by the neck until dead. The process of judicial hanging. Hanged by the neck until dead! The processes and physiology of judicial hanging. Contents. please click on the blue hyper links below to navigate round this page. Please note! As this page contains graphic images of real executions. Introduction. Hanging is the oldest but most widely used method of execution in the world. In 2. 01. 5, at least 1. Sri Lanka Latest News, Breaking News Live, Current Headlines, Sri Lanka News Online Georgia CPS News Archive The Georgia news section is your source for the latest in family rights news items, CPS reform efforts, open court demands, abolition of confidentiality laws that judges hide behind, foster care deaths and issues, legal cases and more. Fulton County Online - Rapid and Complete Access for all. Randy Hanzlick, MD February 2002 NOTE: The history presented here is derived in part from documents but much of it is based on memory, personal experience, and the memories and words of others. Sadly, the majority of those hanged in the 2. Iran. It is. estimated that 3. Hanging. remains the standard method of execution in many retentionist countries. Japan, Singapore, Malaysia. South Korea, India, Pakistan. Bangladesh, several African. Botswana. Kenya and Zimbabwe, and some Middle Eastern countries. Iran, Iraq, Egypt. Get the latest international news and events from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and more. See world news photos and videos at ABCNews. Sections Top Stories Video Election U.S. World Entertainment Health Tech Lifestyle Money Investigative Sports Good. Melville wrote Billy Budd amid the movement against the death penalty. Thus it relates to current debates about capital punishment. Billy Budd and Capital Punishment: A Tale of Three Centuries by H. Bruce Franklin (Reprinted from AMERICAN LITERATURE. Introduction A brief look at execution statistics Last executions in the UK. Abolition Equipment The gallows, pinioning straps, hood, & noose Execution methods The “Short Drop ” Surviving the gallows The “Long Drop” Drop tables Setting the drop After the drop fell. Animal Aid Founded 1977 (1977) Founder Jean Pink Type Animal rights Focus Vivisection, animal farming and slaughter, animal rights, shooting, veganism, horse racing, and wildlife culls. Promotes cruelty-free living. The American Military manual specifies broadly similar drops to the above. The graph below shows how long it takes to drop a given distance. How hanging causes death. Short drop and simple suspension hanging. Short drop/suspension hanging accounts for a. Although it is commonly believed that the concept of brain death (BD) was developed to benefit organ transplants, it evolved independently. Transplantation owed its development to advances in surgery and immunosuppressive treatment; BD owed its origin to the development of intensive care. Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon. Syria and in most Caribbean states. It was used extensively in Iraq. Saddam Hussein and continues to be the lawful method there under the new. These further stated that there have been 1. Iraq adopted the American style of. Hanging. originated as a method of execution in Persia. It was the method of choice in many countries. In early times, it was considered ideal because it was the simplest. Unlike beheading there was no requirement for a skilled. There is no. means of knowing how many people have hanged worldwide in the last 2,0. From 1. 80. 0 and 1. Britain. In America it is. Hanging was the normal form of execution in many. It was the standard method in Britain and its. France. prior to the French Revolution and also in Germany and pre- communist Russia. It was. the lawful method in all states of America up to 1. Hanging was also used by. Australia, Austria, Canada, Czechoslovakia. South Africa. The processes of judicial hanging. There are four main forms of hanging. Short drop. hanging where the prisoner drops just a few inches, and their suspended. Vagal reflex. Death is caused in the same way as. Standard drop. hanging where the prisoner drops a predetermined amount, typically 4- 6. This was the normal method. America. in the later 1. Finally. measured or “long drop” hanging which became universal in Britain from. This method was adopted in British Colonies and by some. Each of these processes are examined in detail below. Hanging. using little or no drop is still used by some Middle Eastern countries. Iran. Short drop hanging was effectively universal up to around 1. The prisoner could be suspended by a variety of means. America, or by removing the platform on which they stood, as. Nazi hangings and also in present day Iranian ones carried out. Britain from 1. 76. This 1. 80. 9 picture of the triple hanging on the “New Drop” gallows. Debtor's Door of Newgate in London. In Iran. both mobile crane and recovery truck jibs are used. All of these have hydraulic. In America. instead of the conventional gallows that dropped the prisoner through a. This method was used. William E. Udderzook. West Chester, Pennsylvania and also for Charles Thiede in Utah. Connecticut. used a similar arrangement for the execution of Gerald Chapman on April the 2. A. weight was connected to the rope which passed over a pulley. The warden. operated a lever with his foot to allow the weight to fall, so pulling Chapman. This was not worked out against the weight of the individual, but was. It was considered as an advance on the short. A drop of this distance was often not sufficient. Standard drops were given. Nazis executed after the Nuremberg trials and several were reported to. The Lincoln. conspirators were given a drop of five feet at their hanging in 1. A. number of hangings of German war criminals carried out under American. Landsberg and Bruchsal in Germany. This concept had been developed by doctors in Ireland and was in use there by the. Longer drops were in use elsewhere by this time, e. Austria. Czechoslovakia, Poland & Russia. The long drop method was designed to break the prisoner’s neck by allowing them. At the end of the drop, the body is still accelerating under the. The later use of the. The weight used. to calculate the correct drop is that of the prisoner's clothed body. In accordance. with the recommendations of the Aberdare Committee, from 1. The length of the drop was worked out by the formula 1,2. The. 1. 89. 2 table produced a force of 8. The Home. Office issued a rule restricting all drops to between 5 feet and 8 feet 6. In Britain, the. drop was worked out and set to the nearest half of an inch to ensure the. Compression of the carotid arteries may. Vagal reflex, this requiring. The vertebrae. protect the vertebral and spinal arteries which also supply blood to the brain. There will be the classic signs of petechiae - little. The tongue may protrude due to the. Where death has occurred through. Vagal reflex, the face will typically be pale and bluish in colour and. In all cases there will normally be an inverted “V” mark. When a. person is hanged they may exhibit signs. This is often followed by a quiescent phase before what can be. Heaving of the. chest is also reported. There exist many reports and pictures of. An. analysis of 4. Iran that were legally and. In another video- taped execution that took. Decerebrate. posturing is caused by lesions of the brainstem due to the coils of the noose. This film clearly demonstrates how pole. Frank struggled after. They were executed under. British (occupation) jurisdiction but it would seem that pole hanging returned. Austrian jurisdiction. Czechoslovakia’s. Hungary’s in 1. 98. Standard drop hanging. Where. the standard drop proves inadequate to break the neck or cause unconsciousness. The force generated by a drop of 5 or 6 feet is very considerable and. This description of a hanging at San. Quentin prison in California is from Clinton Duffy who was the warden there. Major Raymond Lisemba on May 9th, 1. I observed also. that he urinated, defecated, and droppings fell on the floor, and the stench. Some of them threw up. When he was taken down and the cap removed, . The force produced by the prisoner's body weight multiplied by the. U. K. In medical terms this is known as hyperflexion of the neck, which causes fracture- dislocation. C2 & C3 vertebrae. This time is very variable, however, with. Morgan. the medical officer of London’s Newgate prison, used a sphygmograph. Joseph King, 3. 1 year old Thomas Currell and 2. Isreal. Lipski. Buckland, the assistant director of pathology, British. Army of the Rhine, on Nazi war criminals executed by the British at Hameln. Germany after World War II and these found, that although the. The prison doctor listened to their hearts with a. These showed that it. On the 1. 5th of. May 1. 94. 6 a further ten executions were carried out and this time the condemned. It showed that impulses were produced for a further ten minutes. This is also referred to as the heart’s. I have reproduced it as closely as possible to. Post mortems are/were also carried out in. POST MORTEM EXAMINATIONName Ellis, Ruth Apparent Age 2. At H. Prison, Holloway Date July 1. EXTERNAL. EXAMINATIONHow long dead. Well nourished. Evidence of proper care and attention. Height 5ft. 2ins. Weight 1. 03 lbs. DEEP IMPRESSIONS AROUND NECK from. L. No marks of restraint. INTERNAL. EXAMINATIONSkull .. Stomach and contents .. Peritoneum. Intestines, etc. No asphyxial. changes. No organic changes. No petechiae. or other evidence of organic change. Small food residue, and odour of brandy. No disease. Normal. Terminal congestion only. Normal. Slight terminal congestion only. Lower abdominal operation scar for ectopic pregnancy operation in L. No pregnancy. Other remarks .. Deceased was a healthy subject at. Mark of suspension normally situated and injuries from judicial hanging - to. CAUSE OF DEATH .. Injuries to the central nervous. Signed. Keith Simpson. M. In some cases there will have been effusions of. The opening of the sphincters can also be caused by an adrenaline rush. Total body death results usually within less than 3. The original. photograph of the execution of the Lincoln conspirators in America in 1. Lewis Powell, had an erection after he was. Men may also ejaculate on the rope. Charles Croker King was a surgeon in Ireland in the. John Hurley who was hanged. August 1. 85. 3. at Galway, immediately after the. This together with the other post mortem findings. On Death by Hanging” published in 1. Ejaculation may be caused by the stimulation of the. Vagal nerve which is responsible for sexual arousal, together with the reduced. In the handwritten autopsy notes of a hanging by the famous pathologist Sir. Bernard Spilsbury, he states that there was no . All manner of patterns of gallows have been used worldwide over the years. From. 1. 78. 3, the gallows at Newgate in London had a trapdoor and as the concept of. The. earliest use of the . This was in the form of a small box. This style was used. America and most other countries up until the early part of the. The present day gallows in Washington's Walla Walla. America typically used a single leaf trap whereas. Britain and countries which adopted British style hanging typically use(d) a. Modern gallows in Australia, Britain, Singapore, Malaysia and former British. South. Africa used a metal beam that could accomodate up to seven prisoners simultaneously at Pretoria. Central Prison prior to abolition. In early 2. 0th century British execution. Pentonville and Wandsworth prisons in London up to abolition. Lebanon. used this quite complex style of gallows for public hangings - the picture is of the. May 1. 99. 8. Visit the Gallows Galleries for pictures of gallows from Britain and around the world. Several. types of noose are in use worldwide. At its simplest, a noose is just a slip. Nazi executioners used this. World War II, typically made from 6- 1. The traditional hangman's noose (picture) has from 5 to 1. This. pattern was used in America. Iran. and Iraq. It is formed into six. In the 2. 0th century the eyelet was typically placed. The noose was improved in the 1. William Marwood. The eyelet was initially held in place by a leather washer and later by a. It is usually made from a 1. Later, the part of the rope that would come into. Billy Budd and Capital Punishment. Billy Budd and Capital Punishment. A Tale of Three Centuriesby. H. Bruce Franklin(Reprinted from AMERICAN LITERATURE, June 1. Copyright 1. 99. 7. H. Bruce Franklin). Has any work of American literature generated more antithetical and. Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor? Posner. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (and a self- styled. According to the judge, . Why have we overlooked. Is it because we ignore the history of capital punishment. American. culture?(4) Or have we, who have been scrutinizing. World War II culture of the second half of the. Americans? In any case, if. Billy Budd within the American history of capital. New York State during the years 1. Billy. Budd derives in part from the American movement against capital punishment. Does capital punishment. What. are the effects of public executions? Is hanging a method of execution. Is an impulsive act of killing by an. Is capital punishment essentially a manifestation. An instrument of class oppression? Participants on all sides. George III in England. The most spectacular increase. George III, when sixty offenses were appended. By the. last third of the nineteenth century, George III's Bloody Code had been. England and America.(7). As the battle against capital punishment raged while Melville was composing. Billy Budd, partisans on both sides agreed that eliminating most. Not surprisingly, opponents of the death. Georgian code as barbaric and anachronistic, even for. For example, a widely reprinted 1. Vere instructs the court that they must disregard. For example, Thomas Jefferson and four other. Virginia legislators drafted such a law in early 1. House of Delegates.(1. The most influential legal act came in 1. Billy Budd, when the state of Pennsylvania became the. Maine in 1. 83. 7 and New Hampshire in 1. Massachusetts limited the death penalty to first degree. Ohio (1. 85. 0), Iowa (1. Connecticut (1. 85. The two great newspapers. New York City were for decades edited by prominent opponents of capital. William Cullen Bryant of the New York Evening Post (1. Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune (1. In the slave South, however, George III's Bloody Code had its distinctively. American counterpart in the myriad of offenses defined as capital if committed. Capital punishment as an instrument of class oppression has. For example, in 1. Universalist minister. Charles Spear of Massachusetts cited the laws of the South as examples. Assaulting free white female with intent. Burglary or arson of any description contained in. Murder of a slave or free person of color. Rape, or attempt to commit, if a slave, free. Insurrection or rebellion against the white inhabitants. Virginia had seventy- one crimes. These included. burglary, forgery, stealing a horse or harboring a horse thief, . Pre- Civil War North. Carolina had a mandatory sentence of death for any person guilty of concealing. Holland, Finland, Belgium, Prussia, Portugal, Tuscany, and Rumania.(2. To maximize shock value, they often focused on what many regarded as the. As abolitionists emphasized. Between 1. 83. 3 and 1. From the late 1. 86. New. York State became the pivotal battleground. In his 1. 86. 9 Putnam's. Edison, however, was obsessively committed to direct current. DC), which could not be economically transmitted more than a mile or two. Meanwhile, Civil War hero General Newton Curtis. New York Assembly in 1. New York State.(3. In 1. 88. 5 Governor David Hill, anxious to preserve capital punishment while. So in 1. 88. 7 he began a gruesome publicity campaign, inviting. New York newspapers, to witness theatrically. Edison even managed. New York State Commission to Investigate and. Report the Most Humane and Practical Method of Carrying into Effect the. Sentence of Death to attend his AC electrocution of neighborhood dogs.(3. Edison's main operative was one Harold P. Brown, who pretended to be acting. New York Sun printed a series of forty- five. Brown and Edison, as well as between Brown and the companies. Edison.(3. 4) In 1. Brown staged at Columbia College's School of Mines an especially cruel. New York Herald called . The New York. Tribune and New York Times were both zealous allies of Edison. The Times in 1. 88. Besides their news. The only caveats. Commission's recommendations. Lawyers for William. Kemmler, the intended victim of the first electrocution, went to court. General Curtis. submitted his second Assembly bill to outlaw capital punishment. The Tribune. and the Times now began to impugn General Curtis's motives, implying. Westinghouse (charges refuted. Congress to abolish the death. The personal attacks on Curtis got fiercer. New York. Assembly on May 1, 1. The bill was not, however, approved by the State Senate. All the recommendations. State Commission- -including criminal penalties for publishing descriptions. New York State. So on. August 6, 1. 89. 0, William Kemmler became the first victim of the modern. English editors were just as much shocked. Atlantic, one London daily declaring. Kemmler's execution sent a thrill of horror around the globe. Although Melville's contemporaries, who almost universally abhorred. Captain Vere's instantaneous decision. Billy . There is not even the almost. Chapter 2. 6, obtrusively. Billy's transcendent death and the sailors' reaction. The purser suggests. Then the absence of. Admitting to the purser that this . Though. it may outwardly resemble the . Indeed, the essence. One comes. from the impulsive, involuntary fatal blow Billy Budd strikes to the forehead. Claggart. The blow is partly in response to Captain Vere's exhortation. Billy, . The other killing is carried out under cover of law, after reasoned. Captain Vere. and his officers. Budd is not even accused. One question that underlies the twentieth- century discussion. Vere's act might be framed this way: Does it conform to the 1. Pennsylvania definition of murder in the ? The fact that hangings were. Indeed, the terms widely. Were this rule observed, the victim of the. Let me illustrate the thought: a man commits a murder: the. Here we have two parties. A most solemn. thought. There are many extenuating circumstances in the first instance. In the trial, during. Vere acts as sole witness, prosecutor, and, ultimately, commander. One is precisely that they must . By arguing, especially in such legalistic. Vere is underlining for readers in 1. The three officers, in fact, are disturbed by this. Later Vere. reiterates, . Vere insists, in fact, that he and his officers must act merely. Our vowed responsibility is in this: That however. To late nineteenth- century readers, this. Georgian justice. United States. and Britain. Each of Vere's arguments, in fact, defends one or more of. Georgian code, features that had been. Opponents of capital punishment. Joining them, however, were some of the. By the late 1. 88. Nevertheless, the defenders of capital. Vere, tended more and more to abandon the argument that. God, et cetera, and more and. They appealed. not so much to evidence as to the fear of violent crime widespread among. Like the typical nineteenth- century defender of capital punishment. Vere appeals to the fear of the fellow members of his privileged class. Bellipotent, in other words to . The. customary argument was (and is) that capital punishment deters the particular. Vere's argument- -far more cynical- -is. Billy Budd before the crew will intimidate them and reinforce. Mutiny is the crime of which Claggart. Billy and of which Vere and his officers know Billy. For readers in 1. Vere's argument, so persuasive to. Even could you explain to them- -which. No, to the people the foretopman's deed. What penalty for that should follow, they. But it does not follow. You know. what sailors are. Will they revert to the recent outbreak at the Nore? They know the well- founded alarm- -the panic it struck throughout England. They would think. What shame to us such a conjecture on their part, and how deadly. The State is there in the person of the hangman. The Church. is there in the person of the priest or minister. It is the old familiar. State doing deeds of violence and blood in the name of law. Melville seems to be extrapolating from this passage, or many similar. As such, he is as incongruous as a. Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because. he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too. Force. Although the. Discipline is breached. Billy's hanging and in response to it, in the midst of the rituals. Like many of the arguments raised against the death penalty between. Billy Budd strips away the illusions of. Nevertheless, crowds continued to find ways. When, for example. One principal argument against public executions had been. This reasoning is ironically. The very spar from which he was hanged. Undoubtedly New York Assemblyman Hitt was overstating the case. Even the most ardent. America would. be embarrassed by positions such as these: . Ascribing British naval law of this period. It should not convert into slaves some of the citizens of a. The book was. White- Jacket,(6. Billy Budd on a. writing box to which he had glued the motto: . As. he was writing Billy Budd, the rising tide of imperialism, with. White- Jacket. In 1. He dramatized the deadly meaning of capital punishment for the. Billy. Budd from the Rights of Man and his execution on the aptly named. Bellipotent. My own view of the great debate can be found in. Robert Lee (London: Vision Press, 1. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1. For an astute analysis of the. U. S. Weisberg himself has. See also the perceptive exploration in Susan Weiner. Law in Art: Melville's Major Fiction and Nineteenth- Century American. Law (New York: Peter Lang, 1. In his groundbreaking article . This article did most of. American. arguments opposing and defending capital punishment. Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside. Narrative), ed. Harrison Hayford and Merton Sealts, Jr., (Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 1. Subsequent references. Cooper, The Lesson of the Scaffold. The Public Execution Controversy in Victorian England (Athens, Ohio. Ohio University Press, 1.
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