Hangings

Hanging is a means of execution wherein a person is bound and has a noose placed about their neck. They are abruptly dropped from a predetermined height (a standard drop is anywhere from four to six feet) until the noose tightens, snapping their neck. In western culture, hanging was a common means of execution utilized up until the early twentieth century. It is still widely used in many other cultures and may even be the primary means of capital punishment. The wooden structure that includes the platform, and the frame through which the ligature is threaded is called the gallows.

In film

• A Bucket of Blood: After evading capture for murder, crazed would-be artist Walter Paisley covers himself in clay and then hangs himself, turning himself into a plaster work of art - his final masterpiece.

• Friday the 13th Part 3: Chris Higgins hangs Jason Voorhees from some rope in the hayloft at Higgins Haven. Although it appears that this might finish him off, Voorhees survives and goes on many more killing sprees.

• Lady Frankenstein: A prisoner named Jack Morgan is executed by hanging. His crimes are unclear, but he was not even liked by other criminals. Rather than being hanged at the Gallows, Morgan was dropped through a well. His body was later recovered by grave-robbers who sold it to Baron Frankenstein, who harvested his organs.

• Night of Dark Shadows: Reverend Strack hung Angelique Collins from an old oak tree on the Collinwood estate in the year 1810. She was executed on charges of witchcraft.

In television

• Ash vs Evil Dead

• "Ashy Slashy": Ruby Knowby and Pablo Simon Bolivar come upon the hanging body of a security guard named Reg Lopez at the Kenward County Asylum.

• Being Human

• "It's a Shame About Ray": In a limbo dimension, the ghost of Stevie Atkins is forced to relive a moment of hanging, even though this was not the manner in which he originally died.

• Dark Shadows

• Episode 460: The time-displaced Victoria Winters was executed for witchcraft by hanging in the year 1796. Fortunately for her, the mysterious forces that first sent her backwards in time, returned her to the present at the moment of death, so she actually survived.

• Preacher

• "See": The Cowboy passes through the town of Ratwater where he spies several Native Americans hung from a tree, all of whom had been scalped.
• "South Will Rise Again": The Cowboy passes by the tree again with the scalped Native Americans hanging from it.

• The Walking Dead

• "Still": Daryl Dixon and Beth Greene come upon the Pine Vista Country Club where they find three walkers hanging from nooses inside a building. They were apparently hung by rivals at the lodge during the initial zombie outbreak.

See also

• Appearances of hangings

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