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Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain "hanging".Hanging oneself is also used to describe a method of suicide in which a person...

Timeline of Events

1783

11.3.1783

John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.

1865

11.10.1865

Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.

1873

2.18.1873

Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.

1993

1.5.1993

Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the last legal hanging in America).