Execution of Women by Hanging
For centuries women have been executed by hanging. This method was very popular during WWII in Nazi Europe. The "long drop" method usually broke the neck, while the "short drop" method slowly strangled the condemned. Women in particular urinate and deficate themselves, so were therefore made to wear diapers or heavy canvas pants. More information can be found by searching "women execution by hanging".
Posted by bambib on 9/2/2009
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The execution of women by the Nazis during World War II ... Lots of men were hanged too and many men and women were shot. But hanging was always preferred for young girls for the reasons above. Many of these young people met their deaths with amazing courage. They were very brave anyway to do the things they did against...
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Hanging was the most common method of execution for women, although some were shot. (Large numbers of men were shot during this period.) Men and women were hanged in large groups in Tehran prisons from cranes and forklift trucks.
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The smell of urine and feces around the hanging execution site was renowned. Streaks of urine and feces crusted on the victims' legs and pooled under their dead bodies. The women's skirts were stained brown, especially in the rear, and their undergarments often held a load leaching brown fluid as if through a cheesecloth.
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Ansar Burney condemned execution of women by hanging in Afghanistan: KARACHI, Pakistan: The renowned human and civil rights activist Ansar Burney, Advocate has strongly condemned the barbaric attitude of the Taliban authorities against women in the name of Islam in Afghanistan.
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Women of Jewish origin were used in most cases for these experiments, ... The shooting was performed by a firing squad, commanded by an officer of the SS. Afterwards deep holes dug outside the fence were chosen as the place of execution, near the camp gate, and afterwards a square near ... The bodies were left hanging all night.
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Two women convicted of crimes against morality in Iran are facing imminent execution, one by being buried up to her chest and stoned, Amnesty International said last night. ... The man with whom Hajieh had the affair, who was 17 at the time, has been sentenced to death by hanging.
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THE DAY OF EXECUTION; Hanging, stoning, burning and flaying had all been compared and dismissed as much to quick a death, hardly worth the long wait in the hot sun. All agreed that the most favored method was ... Both young women were still screaming their torment as they twisted and writhed on their crosses,
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A photograph of Mary Surratt and three other convicted co-conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. ... Topics: women in the Civil War, Mary Surratt, assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, execution, hanging, first woman to be executed by the United States, death warrant, General John F. Hartranft...
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The hangman's noose used for the last execution by hanging in Colorado ... A visit to the the Royal Gorge Region isn't complete without stopping and "doing" time in this historical cell house that was the original Women's Correctional Facility constructed in 1935.
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