Hanging

Hanging is a form of execution, or a method for suicide.

Recent hangings

Hanging is commonly the method of executing penalties of death in Commonwealth countries that still have it, e.g. Malaysia and Singapore.

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Commonwealth - Malaysia - Singapore

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In the Soviet Union, the last persons to be sentenced to death by hanging were Andrey Vlasov and 11 other officers of his army on August 1, 1946.

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Soviet Union - Andrey Vlasov - August 1 - 1946

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A recent case of capital punishment by hanging is that of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, who was convicted of the 1990 murder and rape of a 14 year old girl in Kolkata in India. Although the Supreme Court of India has suggested that capital punishment be given in the rarest of rare cases, Chatterjee was executed on August 14, 2004 in the first execution in West Bengal for eleven years.

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Capital punishment - Dhananjoy Chatterjee - 1990 - Kolkata - India - Supreme Court of India - August 14 - 2004 - West Bengal

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On February 27, 2004 the mastermind of the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, Shoko Asahara was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. Hanging is the common method of execution in capital punishment cases in Japan, even though the punishment is rarely executed.

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February 27 - 2004 - Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway - Shoko Asahara - Japan

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On July 19, 2005, two Iranian boys, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, were publicly hanged at Edalat (Justice) Square in Mashhad, northeast Iran, on charges of homosexuality and rape. The punishment has been met with international outrage. At the ages of 15 and 17, respectively, they were discovered having sexual relations. They were imprisoned for fourteen months and subjected to 228 lashes each, then executed. According to the ISNA report as translated by OutRage "They admitted having gay sex but claimed in their defense that most young boys had sex with each other and that they were not aware that homosexuality was punishable by death." Subsequent to their execution the government broadcast the allegation that they had raped a 13-year old boy, a story rejected by MAHA, the voice of the Iranian gay community. http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/07/iran_executes_2.htmlhttp://www.gayrussia.ru/en/detail.php?ID=1596

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July 19 - 2005 - Iran - Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni - Mashhad - Homosexuality - Rape

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