[big raymie]

Maybe the rope "Boinged" back up outa camera shot

[osiris]

i think that is the point of the execution, to cut the head off somehow...

[Fly-By-Night]

No, its a fuck-up for the executioner.

[annmarie]

wow nice pics the head came clean off

[TerrestrialCon]

I've seen this before and it laid claim to be from Saudi Arabia... Seems more plausible, they're still REALLY into the 'whole-hang-people-all-the-time-from-everything-forever' mindset, but don't seem to have it down to a science after all of these years. Odd...

[ShesLostControl]

*pop*

[Azimuth]

Originally Posted by Sie.Goat ↗

Doesn't guantanamo have orange uniform?

Some are.

[BlakeOfDoom]

An easy explanation to this is that the victim in this case fell a wee bit too far, pulling his head off; the rope stored up enough energy that the release of the head caused the release of energy in the rope, its similar to something called "snap-back" all you squiddly diddlies should know this phenomenon.

[backdoorbeauty21]

Originally Posted by pyromancer555 ↗

Its an improper hanging if the fuck it up it can cause decapitation. the rope wasnt right so his body weight pulled his head off!

Are you serious?! The head will just come off?! That is crazy

[Shadowkeeper]

Originally Posted by backdoorbeauty21 ↗

Are you serious?! The head will just come off?! That is crazy

Here's some fun facts about hanging:


There are four ways of performing a judicial hanging — the short drop, suspension hanging, the standard drop, and the long drop. A mechanised form of hanging, the upright jerker, was also experimented with in the 18th century.

Short drop

The short drop is done by placing the condemned prisoner on the back of a cart, horse, or other vehicle, with the noose around the neck. The object is then moved away, leaving the person dangling from the rope. The condemned prisoner dies of strangulation, typically between ten and twenty minutes. Before 1850, it was the main method. A ladder was also commonly used with the condemned being forced to ascend, after which the noose was tied and the ladder pulled away or turned, leaving the condemned hanging. Another method involves using a stool, which the condemned is required to stand on, being kicked away.

Standard drop

The standard drop, which arrived as calculated in English units, involves a drop of between four and six feet (1.2 to 1.8 m) and came into use from 1866, when the scientific details were published by an Irish doctor, Samuel Haughton. Immediately its use spread to English-speaking countries and those where judicial systems had an English origin. It was considered a humane improvement on the short drop because it was intended to be enough to break the person's neck, causing immediate paralysis and immobilization (and probable immediate unconsciousness). This method was used to execute condemned Nazis under United States jurisdiction after the Nuremberg Trials including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Ernst Kaltenbrunner.

Nazis executed under British jurisdiction, including Josef Kramer, Fritz Klein, Irma Grese and Elisabeth Volkenrath, were hanged by Albert Pierrepoint using the variable drop method devised by William Marwood.

Long drop

See Official Table of Drops

This process, also known as the measured drop, was introduced to Britain in 1872 by William Marwood as a scientific advancement to the standard drop. Instead of everyone falling the same standard distance, the person's height, weight and strength were used to determine how much slack would be provided in the rope so that the distance dropped would be enough to ensure that the neck was broken but not so much that the person was decapitated.

Prior to 1892, the drop was between four and ten feet (about one to three metres), depending on the weight of the body, and was calculated to deliver a force of 1,260 lbf (5,600 newtons or 572 kgf), which fractured the neck at either the 2nd and 3rd or 4th and 5th cervical vertebrae. However, this force resulted in some decapitations, such as the famous case of "Black Jack" Tom Ketchum in New Mexico Territory in 1901. Between 1892 and 1913, the length of the drop was shortened to avoid decapitation. After 1913, other factors were also taken into account, and the force delivered was reduced to about 1,000 lbf (4,400 N or 450 kgf). The decapitation of Eva Dugan during a botched hanging in 1930 led the state of Arizona to switch to the gas chamber as its primary execution method, on the grounds that it was believed more humane. One of the more recent decapitations as a result of the long drop occurred when Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti was hanged in Iraq in 2007.


Medical effects



A hanging may induce one or more of the following medical conditions, some leading to death:
Closure of carotid arteries causing cerebral ischemia
Closure of the jugular veins
Induction of carotid reflex, which reduces heartbeat when the pressure in the carotid arteries is high, causing cardiac arrest
Breaking of the neck (cervical fracture) causing traumatic spinal cord injury or even decapitation
Closure of the airway
Death erection

The cause of death in hanging depends on the conditions related to the event. When the body is released from a relatively high position, death is usually caused by severing the spinal cord between C1 and C2, which may be functional decapitation. High cervical fracture frequently occurs in judicial hangings, and in fact the C1-C2 fracture has been called the "hangman's fracture" in medicine, even when it occurs in other circumstances. Usually, accidental C1-C2 fracture victims do not immediately become unconscious; instead death occurs after some minutes.[citation needed] Another process that has been suggested is carotid sinus reflex death. By this theory, the mechanical stimulation of the carotid sinus in the neck brings on terminal cardiac arrest.

In the absence of fracture and dislocation, occlusion of blood vessels becomes the major cause of death, rather than asphyxiation. Obstruction of venous drainage of the brain via occlusion of the internal jugular veins leads to cerebral edema and then cerebral ischemia. The face will typically become engorged and cyanotic (turned blue through lack of oxygen). There will be the classic sign of strangulation—petechiae—little blood marks on the face and in the eyes from burst blood capillaries. The tongue may protrude.

Compromise of the cerebral blood flow may occur by obstruction of the carotid arteries, even though their obstruction requires far more force than the obstruction of jugular veins, since they are seated deeper and they contain blood in much higher pressure compared to the jugular veins. Only 31 newtons (7 lbf or 3.2 kgf) of force may be enough to constrict the carotid arteries to the point of rapid unconsciousness.[citation needed] Where death has occurred through carotid artery obstruction or cervical fracture, the face will typically be pale in color and not show petechiae. Many reports and pictures exist of actual short-drop hangings that seem to show that the person died quickly, while others indicate a slow and agonizing death by strangulation.

When cerebral circulation is severely compromised by any mechanism, arterial or venous, death occurs over four or more minutes from cerebral hypoxia, although the heart may continue to beat for some period after the brain can no longer be resuscitated. The time of death in such cases is a matter of convention. In judicial hangings, death is pronounced at cardiac arrest, which may occur at times from several minutes up to 15 minutes or longer after hanging. During suspension, once the prisoner has lapsed into unconsciousness, rippling movements of the body and limbs may occur for some time which are usually attributed to nervous and muscular reflexes. In Britain, it was normal to leave the body suspended for an hour to ensure death.

After death, the body typically shows marks of suspension: bruising and rope marks on the neck. Moreover, sphincters will relax spontaneously and urine and faeces will be evacuated. Forensic experts may often be able to tell if hanging is suicide or homicide, as each leaves a distinctive ligature mark. One of the hints they use is the hyoid bone. If broken, it often means the person has been murdered by manual choking.






And for some really fun commentary on the effects of hanging:


While the effects of hanging vary between one human to another, basically the obvious effects are very obvious, that is why they are obvious. From the time the individual is hanged, he or she begins to feel a slight tickle in the neck, possible around the upper neck area. It is quite similar with a bee sting, a funny feeling when you get it. Then this feeling will move to your toe and usually the person will start to laugh. Then before you realised it, you are dead. Here are the brief chronological effects of hanging.

First 0.5 second

The gravity will start pull you down and you will start making faces like those slow motions on some television shows. Sometimes the hanged will scream "NOOOEEEEEE!!!" while some others are very quiet. Basically, it depends on the zodiac sign. Taurus people have a bigger chance to scream "FUUUCKKKK WORLD!!!" while Virgo people will scream like in an orgasm, "Ahhhhhh!!".

One second

Depending on the length of the rope, in most cases the hangees are still on the way to the floor and the tension of the rope is increasing. By this time, most hangees will get many visions of their past times like the one you may have seen on Armageddon the movie. You know, that time when Bruce Willis tried to detonate the nuke. He kept waiting for so long that he tried to remember all of his life? You know that? Then he got some visions like his daughter's face and stuff like that, you know?

Three seconds

The rope will start to pull your neck and head up, while the gravity will pull the rest of your body down. A very scary moment, for sure. At this time, most hangees will see some characters from their childhood, like Grue, Teletubbies, Pokemon and nipples. In some very serious cases, people will start getting hentai images.

Five seconds

The body system of the hangee will start to deteriorate, possibly by the enormous amount of pressure from the rope. Based on a number of researches, it has been known that hangees couldn't see colours anymore, and every object will only have two colours, red and green. Actually some others may see purple and violet. Due to the intense pressure, the hangee will probably crap his/her pants.

Twenty seconds

The hangee should be dead now. Below are some possible outcomes.
The body and the head still stick to each other
The body is missing, the head is hanged.
The head is missing, the body is on the floor.
John Wayne is having an orgasm.
It's raining outside.

Five minutes

The hangee's body has been taken out to a nearby river, the rope has been put back to the cupboard, John Wayne is still having an orgasm, the sun looks so bright and everyone gets on with their lives.