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'''Hanging''' was a form of [[death penalty|capital punishment]] by which an individual was suspended in the air by a rope, usually tied at one end into a knot called a "noose". |
'''Hanging''' was a form of [[death penalty|capital punishment]] by which an individual was suspended in the air by a rope, usually tied at one end into a knot called a "noose". |
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Hanging was a form of capital punishment by which an individual was suspended in the air by a rope, usually tied at one end into a knot called a "noose".
To effect a hanging, the rope was affixed to a tree, beam or other fixed point, and the noose was tightened around the victim's neck. Then, the victim was pulled up, or support dropped from underneath him, until his entire body weight was being borne by his neck.
Death would subsequently result from strangulation or the neck's inability to bear the weight of the victim.
Notable hangings
On the Skagaran colony in 2153, a Human posse led by Deputy Bennings hung a Skagaran for alledgedly killing a man named Clay Stanton. (ENT: "North Star")
On the un-named planet inhabited by Gosis' species, hanging was the preferred method for meting out the death penalty. (ENT: "The Communicator")
As part of a conviction for fraud, Deneb V offered a guilty party the choice of death sentences. One was death by hanging. (TOS: "I, Mudd")
Trelane once held a mock trial of Kirk on Gothos, where he issued the verdict that Kirk would "hang by the neck until" Kirk was "dead, dead, dead". (TOS: "The Squire of Gothos")
After her crew voluntarily chose to disobey her orders in 2375, Kathryn Janeway remarked that they could all be "hanged for mutiny", a reference to the ancient naval custom of hanging mutineers. (VOY: "Night")