Death by hanging?

Question

What is the timeline of death by hanging? What is the end casue of death? Starting from the first to last what actually happens to a hanging victem? Loss of bowels? Broken neck?

Answer 1

If done correct, the neck snaps when the rope becomes taught.

Answer 2

The only thing that happens when you break your neck is that you
don't kick and dance. It adds the pain of a broken neck to the first
few seconds of the experience.

By all accounts death by hanging is only unpleasant during the time
you want to breathe but can't, and you begin to lose consciousness due
to carotid artery constriction (following which the semi-conscious
events, by accounts of survivors, are quite pleasant, due to endorphins
released as the brain dies of ischemia-- the tremendous sense of
euphoria, calm, the white light, and so on). That's 10 or 15 seconds
if the noose is done correctly. The best way be hanged is probably
after taking a deep breath (so you don't need to breathe for the next
15 seconds) and having a noose which is well oiled and constricts well.
The neck-breaking is quite optional. Obviously, there are various ways
it can be bungled. But before 1850 when "the long drop" was pioneered
by Britain's hangmen, there are numerous accounts of people hanged by
the old method, who didn't struggle at all. Major John Andre, for
instance.

Whether your neck breaks or not, the time it takes the heart to
stop can be a few minutes to almost 20. Breaking the neck successfully
seems to shorten this time a bit, for reasons I don't fully understand,
but not by a great deal, and not infallibly. And the trade-offs, as
remarked, aren't worth it.

Answer 3

Broken neck followed by suffocation as a result of the lungs no longer functioning due to the broken neck.

There is actually a bit of art involved in a properly carried out hanging. The knot on the noose is positioned to one side so that the force of the body will quickly snap the neck rather than allowing the victim to dangle on the end of the rope while being strangled. The length of the rope is fairly carefully calculated so that the neck will break but the head will not be completely ripped off of the body.

Answer 4

Depends on if it is done right or not.

IF it is done right, (which sadly is not normally the case) hanging kills you by snapping your neck. This probably causes some shock to the brain itself, I don't know. In any case The brain can no longer communicate with the rest of the body, heart and lung function ceases, and the brain dies from lack of oxygen.

Death is supposed to be instant. I don't know. I guess the brain may hang on for a few minutes on the blood that is in the skull but I don't know and I'm told that hanging victims don't appear conscious. (There are reports in cases where people were gillotined of the head still moving and/or trying to talk for a few seconds/minutes after the head was cut off.)

If hanging is done wrong, your neck does not snap. In these cases people are choked to death as the noose crushes their windpipe. This can take several (10?) minutes and they dance around at the end of the rope trying desparately to support themselves on something and get some air into their lungs. Eventually they strangle and/or pass out from lack of oxygen and suffocate.

That is a pretty horrible way to go.

Answer 5

There are calculations for this. The body has to drop far enough to break the neck, but not rip the head off. When a person is hung, the neck is broken. The person would be conscious for about 30 seconds until the brain dies. Their breathing would cease, and death would happen.

Answer 6

Compression on neck causes cessation of oxygen to lungs, and blood to brain. Unconscious in a minute or two, but brain activity would take a little longer to stop. Bowels may empty, but I don't think the broken neck would be the actually cause of death. Our brains can fuction with a broken neck.

Answer 7

Either or both could happen. But the person being hanged could also suffocate as the rope around his/her neck will cut off his/her breathing. Or the ability at the very least. If this person had eaten prior to getting hanged then there is a good chance that he/she would also lose their bowels at the time of death as they would now be totally relaxed. So any or all could actually happen.

Answer 8

I personally think a miscalculation on the rope lenght is often deserved. It's seems like justice. A person that has ruined so many families and caused so much misery, pain and death deserves an error in rope lenght. If the rope is to short it doesn't break the neck of the condemned and the the person is slowly strangled. If it's to long it decapitates them and they wiggle around on the ground for a while.

Answer 9

First i'd opt for to make this sparkling: We Jews did not run round handing out death sentences. All capital circumstances were delivered previously the severe courtroom (the Sanhedrin), and in accordance to the Talmud, a Sanhedrin which exceeded out one death sentence in protecting with seventy years became seen exceptionally merciless. 2d of all, Jews had not something to do with the death of Jesus- it became basically a Roman problem when you consider that they feared him ideal a insurrection hostile to them. The so referred to as trial given interior the NT tale is the thoroughly opposite of the Jewish regulation a million) It takes position at evening- all trials were held in the course of the day 2) It takes position in a private domicile- all trials in Jerusalem for capital offenses were held interior the courtroom of the Sanhedrin interior the Temple courtyard 3) there have been very few human beings modern-day - there should be a minimum of 21 judges in a capital case- in Jerusalem the full Sanhedrin of 70 judges heard capital circumstances. 4) If a courtroom can not locate someone to blame, they are forbidden handy them over to secular authorities - the "courtroom" interior the NT does not locate Jesus to blame and then palms him over. So 4 severe violations of the halacha (Jewish regulation)- which when you consider that they were in a capital case ability the death sentence for those committing the violations- yet the NT retains slandering the Pharisees and their strict adherence to the regulation! On right of that- you've a large problem; a Roman governor who's later bumped off for severe cruelty! (You gotta ask your self- and this from a those who watched human beings battling to death, getting eaten alive etc for relaxing!) And yet a conquered, powerless crew of folk is one way or the different meant to have the potential to get him to obey them? What does make experience is that if this entire ridiculous concern is inserted in to remove the blame from the Romans at the same time as the early Christians were attempting to remodel them and mandatory a scapegoat! Who more desirable than the individuals that had rejected their new God - it receives rid of the blame from the individuals they try to remodel at the same time as giving an excuse why the vast majority of them have rejected him!

Answer 10

Properly done, it should snap the neck to ensure a fairly quick death.

Done improperly, a person suffocates, slowly. Painfully.