Sadaam hanging Query...?

Question

Just want to find out how long does it take to die after you have been hung. Do you break your neck & that kills you 1st or does it take a few minutes to hang to run out of oxygen?

Coz the video shows it so quickly.I wouldve thought it takes longer to die by hanging.

Answer 1

The neck breaks and you die instantly. In the case of his half brother who was hunh a couple of days ago, his head came clean off

Answer 2

I guess it depends on what you mean by "dead". If you mean, bodily functions ceasing (breathing, heartbeat, etc.), when the neck breaks that happens instantly, as the brain is no longer directing the body to continue to do these things.

On the other hand, if you mean, how long is a person conscious once his neck is snapped when he's hung (like, for example, Saddam Hussein), there is no clear concensus on that point. Some people say that the consciousness dies instantly right along with the body, and some say that it probably takes a couple of minutes to fade away. The second choice seems more likely to me. Yes, blood has stopped flowing to the brain, and thus it is not getting any oxygen, but at the moment that the breakage takes place, there is still usable oxygen in the brain. Since the brain itself isn't immediately damaged by the rope, why should consciousness be immediately destroyed? No reason I can think of.

Answer 3

It depends on the length of the drop and how the rope is situated. Nowadays the most common method is rope to the side with enough room to fall that the weight of your body snaps your neck instantly.. If you don't give enough room for the body to fall, or the noose is positioned to the rear of the body on a lightweight individual, you'll die much more slowly by strangulation.

Answer 4

Quickly if the neck snaps- you have to have a longer drop and tight rope.. it is like the spinal cord breaks from the pressure

If you dont snap the neck u will hang there twitching and suffocationg!!! that takes longer since the rope is just blocking ur airway.. this is cruel!!!

Answer 5

A hanging may cause one or more of the following medical conditions:

Close the carotid arteries
Close the jugular veins
Induce carotid reflex, which reduces heartbeat when the pressure in the carotid arteries is high, causing cardiac arrest
Break the neck (cervical fracture) causing traumatic spinal cord injury
Close the airway causing cerebral ischemia
Decapitation
The cause of death in hanging depends on the conditions related to the event. When the body is released from a relatively high position, death is usually caused by severing the spinal cord between C1 and C2, which may be functional decapitation. High cervical fracture frequently occurs in judicial hangings, and in fact the C1-C2 fracture has been called the "Hangman's fracture" in medicine, even when it occurs in other circumstances. Usually, accidental C1-C2 fracture victims do not immediately become unconscious; instead death occurs after some minutes, from asphyxia.

In the absence of fracture and dislocation, occlusion of blood vessels becomes the major cause of death. Obstruction of venous drainage of the brain via occlusion of the internal jugular veins leads to cerebral oedema and then cerebral ischemia. Other processes that have been suggested to contribute are vagal collapse (via mechanical stimulation of the carotid sinus), and compromise of the cerebral blood flow by obstruction of the carotid arteries, even though their obstruction requires far more force than the obstruction of jugular veins, since they are seated deeper and they contain blood in much higher pressure compared to the jugular veins. Only 31 newtons (7 lbf or 3.2 kgf) of pressure may be enough to constrict the carotid arteries to the point of rapid unconsciousness.

Hangman's knotWhere death has been caused by blocking the veins, the face will typically have become engorged and cyanotic (turned blue through lack of oxygen). There will be the classic sign of strangulation—petechiae—little blood marks on the face and in the eyes from burst blood capillaries. The tongue may protrude. Where death has occurred through carotid artery obstruction or cervical fracture, the face will typically be pale in colour and not show petechiae. There exist many reports and pictures of actual short drop hangings which seem to show that the person died quickly, while others indicate a slow and agonising death by strangulation.

When cerebral circulation is severely compromised by any mechanism, arterial or venous, death occurs over four or more minutes from cerebral hypoxia, although the heart may continue to beat for some period after the brain can no loner be resuscitated. The time of death in such cases is a matter of convention. In judicial hangings, death is pronounced at cardiac arrest, which may occur at times from several minutes up to 15 minutes or longer after hanging. During suspension, once the prisoner has lapsed into unconsciousness, rippling movements of the body and limbs may occur for some time which are usually attributed to nervous and muscular reflexes. In Britain, it was normal to leave the body suspended for an hour to ensure death.

There is a popular myth about sexual stimulation of hanged men, because of the apparent erection some exhibited. The effect is attributed to gravity causing the blood to settle in the legs and lower torso, thereby engorging the penis. (This myth fuels the auto-erotic asphyxiation, a practice that might lead to an accidental death.)

After death, the body typically shows marks of suspension: bruising and rope marks on the neck. Forensic experts may often be able to tell if hanging is suicide or homicide, as each leaves a distinctive ligature mark. One of the hints they use is the hyoid bone. If broken, it often means the person has been murdered by manual choking. Also, there have been cases of autoerotic asphyxiation leading to death; children have accidentally died playing the choking game.

Answer 6

I heard that with the traditional method of a thin rope and the knot on the back it can take awhile, even 10 minutes, but with the English method of a thick rope and the knot to the side it can be quick.

Answer 7

If done correctly death is instantaneous as it snaps the neck. if the knot from the noose isn`t place in just the right spot the person will die slowly thru suffocation

Answer 8

takes a couple seconds 10 or 20

Answer 9

It depends. Sometimes the person's neck snaps. Sometimes the person dies by asphyxiation (suffocation). So if it was over quickly, his neck more than likely broke.

Answer 10

You'll have to use your own judgement because anyone answering your question will not be writing about his personal experience.