Can the person not just hold on to the rope and pull themselves up and grab whatever the rope is hanged from and free themslves? I read a post about suicide survivors, and they usually regret it mid way before killing themselves. So hypothetically can’t a person just pull themselves up from being hanged if they regret it mid way?
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You can’t grab (even if you arms weren’t tied which is normally how professional hanging executions were done) if your neck is broken and your spinal cord severed. And the point of professionally done hanging is exactly that – it’a not meant to suffocate the person and put them in agony, slowly turning blue etc. it’s meant to be quick, and was considered more reliable than decapitation….otherwise there’s no need for gallows, the drop etc, garrote suffocation works reliably with less equipment.
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