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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Most of the time, prisoners have their hands (and sometimes legs) tied together, so that they don’t have any way to interfere with the execution – and so that they don’t twitch as violently.
But even if that wasn’t the case, a hanging is designed to break the neck instantly – the drop they take is calculated to snap the spine. Even if you survived the initial drop, you’d be taking an enormous impact to your spine and you’d be choking for air – it wouldn’t be likely you’d be in any condition or have the strength to pull yourself up.
And of course, even if everything went your way…. you’re surrounded by guards, and the prison has decided that you’re going to be executed. Even if you managed to free yourself, they’d just grab you, drop you again, and they’d make sure it went right this time. You’d need a crazy Hollywood setup to make it out of your own execution, once they pull the lever.
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