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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5680603, member: 110504&quot;][USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], you&#039;re spot on about the techniques.&nbsp; One of my ancestors was the notorious Edmund Mortimer, hung in 1335, once Edward III had gotten out from under the effective dictatorship of Edmund and his consort, Edward&#039;s mother, Isabella of France.&nbsp; He was spared the drawing and quartering part, but the hanging involved being elevated from the ground with the noose around his neck (hence the phrase &#039;strung up;&#039; also used for lynching in <i>this </i>great land of ours); in other words, strangulation.&nbsp; Not even a short drop.&nbsp; ...Nope, No Fun At All.&nbsp; The noose as we know it was designed some time in the 19th century, again out of &#039;humanitarian&#039; concerns, by way of inducing neck breakage, as you noted.&nbsp; ...Your reference to short vs. long drops goes sailing over my head, but intuitively, with that kind of noose, a longer drop would likely have a better chance of a quick, er, dispatch.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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