Originally posted by Pipe Smoker: So simple! So effective!
And reusable. Eventually, that hank of rope is dang near free.
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March 16, 2024, 09:32 AM
12131
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And reusable
That's kind of unsanitary, don't you think? Oh wait...
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March 16, 2024, 10:07 AM
Rawny
^^^ Yeah, they wouldn't want the condemned to get sick...
The piece of shit who ordered the sarin gas in the subway was hung in 2018. Considering his size, a 1ft drop was all he would have needed...or deserved.
Originally posted by Rawny: was hung in 2018. Considering his size
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March 16, 2024, 11:37 AM
Rightwire
It's cleaner and more tidy than the method formerly used.
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Are you sure he used incorrect grammar? I read the link of the differences. I don't think he's using the past tense but a reflexive sentence.
Eta: "was hanged." I think you're right.
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March 16, 2024, 12:33 PM
sigfreund
It’s an extremely common error, to the point of probably being “Accepted usage,” but hanged is the proper past tense of the method of judicial killing. Hung refers to things like pictures on a wall.
My concern about or at least notice of such things could probably be my contribution to the “weird things” thread. But then I learned it so long ago that the method might have still been used in parts of the US.
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March 16, 2024, 12:53 PM
Gustofer
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March 16, 2024, 01:29 PM
Rawny
Well it has been five years since he's been hanged. It's safe to say he's now no longer hung, nor is he "big-bone" anymore.
March 16, 2024, 01:36 PM
Expert308
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And witnesses have since described their horror at watching the mechanical process by which ...
If you find it so horrifying, just don't watch it. Geez.
March 16, 2024, 02:30 PM
Pipe Smoker
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Originally posted by Expert308:
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And witnesses have since described their horror at watching the mechanical process by which ...
If you find it so horrifying, just don't watch it. Geez.
One of the advantages of this method. Potential criminals might reconsider their course of action.
Serious about crackers.
March 16, 2024, 05:32 PM
Rightwire
Apparently watching 3 men pull levers and the condemned disappear through a hole in the floor is a horror to watch?
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March 16, 2024, 05:36 PM
.38supersig
This is the part where they are supposed to tell us that hanging is a renewable resource and better for the environment.
One of our local municipalities had a British style jail. They would take the prisoners and roll them out in a cart for all to see in the town square every day.
One day they rolled two of 'em back to jail and forgot about them. They both died in the cart and began to rot until passersby noticed a fowl smell (and maybe a few buzzards) and had the sherrif check on the jail.
I couldn't find any info on lawbreakers from back then, but I'm thinking that crime went down for quite some time after that.
The county jail close by had indoor gallows in the attic so they could hang 'em rain or shine.
March 16, 2024, 06:52 PM
6guns
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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
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Originally posted by Expert308:
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And witnesses have since described their horror at watching the mechanical process by which ...
If you find it so horrifying, just don't watch it. Geez.
One of the advantages of this method. Potential criminals might reconsider their course of action.
I think deterrence is a very important feature here!
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March 16, 2024, 07:08 PM
kkina
For those watching the new Shōgun mini-series, at least they're not being boiled to death.
