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Understanding Hanging: A Historical and Cultural Perspective

This quiz explores the historical and cultural significance of hanging as a method of execution and its implications in various contexts.

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1 Hanging is the common method of execution in capital punishment cases in Japan, as in the cases of Norio Nagayama,[37] ________,[38] and Tsutomu Miyazaki.

2 Hanging has been a method of ________ in many countries.

3 If broken, it often means the person has been murdered by manual ________.

4 Historically, hanging was the only method of execution used in ________ and was in use as punishment for all murders until 1961, when murders were reclassified into capital and non-capital offences.

5 As a form of judicial execution in ________, hanging is thought to date from the Anglo-Saxon period.

6 In the territories occupied by ________ from 1939 to 1945, strangulation hanging was a preferred means of public execution, although more criminal executions were performed by guillotine than hanging.

7 Bulgaria's national hero, Vasil Levski, was executed by hanging by the Ottoman court in ________ in 1873.

8 hereditary peers who committed capital offences[44], as anticipated by the fictional ________, brother of Lord Peter Wimsey.

9 In ________, hanging is the most common method of suicide,[8] and in the U.S., hanging is the second most common method, after firearms.

10 The last woman to be hanged was Ruth Ellis on July 13, 1955, by ________ who was a prominent hangman in the 20th century in England.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the homosexual content of the works of António Botto led Catholic students to call for the author's hanging.
  • public hangings used to take place near the site of the Municipal Corporation Building, Mumbai (pictured), India.
  • on 14 August 1936 Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, thus becoming the last person to be publicly executed in the United States.
  • the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show (1956–1957) featured Virginia Gregg as Mary Surratt, the woman hanged for conspiracy stemming from the Lincoln assassination.
  • the SS-physician Alfred Trzebinski, who was involved in the homicide of 20 children at the former school Bullenhuser Damm, was executed by hanging in 1946.
  • the first three residents of the John Kane House were a man nearly hanged for treason, a Patriot turned British Loyalist, and George Washington.
  • the western outlaw L.H. Musgrove "calmly puffed a cigar to its bitter butt" as he awaited hanging by vigilantes in Denver, Colorado, in 1868.
  • in the 15th century, cutting down a Nebbiolo grapevine in the Piedmont region of La Morra was punishable by a heavy fine, hanging, or having your right hand cut off.
  • in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, when Dorothy Talbye fell into despair with fits of violence in 1638, she was excommunicated from the church, bound and chained to a post, publicly whipped and finally, after murdering her daughter, hanged.
  • John Martin Scripps was the first Briton in Singapore to be sentenced to death by hanging.
  • Józef Kossakowski (pictured), bishop and writer, was one of several prominent Polish politicians sentenced to hanging as traitors in the aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising.
  • George W. Barrett was the first person sentenced to death by hanging under a congressional act that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent.
  • Konstantin Danzas (pictured) was arrested for his role as Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's second in his fatal duel with d'Anthès and sentenced to hanging.
  • Rachel Wall was the first American-born female pirate, and the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts.
  • in 1582 Ursula Kemp confessed to using familiar spirits to kill her neighbours and was later hanged for witchcraft.
  • Voina is a Russian art collective whose provocative works have included public group sex and staged hangings.
  • Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters were simultaneously hanged in 1923 for the murder of Thompson's husband, even though Bywaters committed the crime on his own.
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