Hanging

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

The United States

In the United States, other forms of capital punishment, such as the electric chair and more recently lethal injection, have largely replaced hanging.

Related Topics:
United States - Electric chair - Lethal injection

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At present, only Washington and New Hampshire still retain hanging as an option. Laws changed in 1996 that penalties of death must be executed by injection unless the convict chooses hanging, but none has taken place ever since. In New Hampshire if it found "?to be impractical to carry out the punishment of death?" by lethal injection, then the condemned will be hanged. http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/lxii/630/630-5.htm In Washington, the default method is lethal injection, though the condemned can choose hanging. http://www.leg.wa.gov/RCW/index.cfm?section=10.95.180&fuseaction=section

Related Topics:
Washington - New Hampshire - 1996

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Serial killer and child molester Westley Allan Dodd chose it over injection in 1992. (See the book Driven to Kill). Charles Campbell was another person hanged in the same State in 27 May 1994. The last person hanged in the United States was Billy Bailey, on January 25 1996 in Delaware, and later the same state abolished this practice.

Related Topics:
Serial killer - Child molester - Westley Allan Dodd - Charles Campbell - 27 May - 1994 - Billy Bailey - January 25 - 1996 - Delaware

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