I can understand the executionner wearing a hood because he/she might be afraid to be recognized by hy put a hood on the person being executed?
2007-01-12 23:54:41 · 10 answers · asked by OD 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
While the hangees hood does all that the others have described. The original custom of placing a hood over the convicts head began in Medieval Europe.
Often hangings would be cut short when the convicts fellow gangmembers would stage daring raids to liberate their comrade. One enterprising law enforcement official in what is now France decided to cover the faces of all of those being hanged (they'd hang several convicts at one time) so that any of his confederates would have a difficult time knowing which one to liberate (they'd stuff a rang soaked in pitch into the convicts mouth to prevent him from yelling out). The confederates would seldom risk their own capture by wasting time sorting several convicts out in order to free their friend.
The idea caught on and soon everyone hanged got their own head covering. As public sentiment changed, the rational became one of decorum and propriety. In states that still allow hanging as a form of capital punishment, the condemned can sometimes request to forego the hood and look his executioners directly in the eyes (the actual neck snap and eye pop occurs out of th epublic's view and under the gallows.
2007-01-16 17:42:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hanged Person
2016-10-17 02:38:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hanging does not always kill instantly.
The executed's eyes may bulge out a bit, his/her mouth and tongue contortion, and the face likely to change color; while the last wiggle of the body ends. The witnesses present are to confirm that a) the right person is being executed, and b) he is now dead. Witnesses do not need the additional trauma of seeing "into the eyes" as the person transitions from life to death.
That's why.
2007-01-13 00:07:00 · answer #3 · answered by curly bob 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The effect of the hanging on the person causes some serious trauma to the face, including the eyes bulging out, sometimes falling out, and most people don't want to see a person's face when they die.
2007-01-13 00:02:37 · answer #4 · answered by GMoney46203 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The person being hanged has the option NOT to wear a hood, as Sadaam.
2007-01-13 04:24:21 · answer #5 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The face contorts gruesomely and turns purple from the hanging. It's done so the crowds, if some are so inclined to watch, doesn't see the terrible face of death. Which is really strange. I wouldn't want to watch anyone being hung.
2007-01-13 00:05:54 · answer #6 · answered by greylady 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because those witnessing the execution don't need to see the eyes of the person being hanged pop out of their skull.
2007-01-13 02:00:25 · answer #7 · answered by 420 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It prevents the eyeballs from popping out into the crowd.
2007-01-13 00:12:53 · answer #8 · answered by spag 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So the public can not see their morbid face after death
2007-01-12 23:59:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
good question---- they need to see what is going to take place
2007-01-13 09:30:35 · answer #10 · answered by nickle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋