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  2. Category:Films about capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Death by Hanging; Death in the Garden; Deathrow (film) Dekalog: Five; The Detective (1968 film) The Devils (film) Dial M for Murder; The Dirty Dozen; Double Indemnity; Duel in the Sun (film) Dukun (film) Dynamite (1929 film)

  3. The Man They Could Not Hang - Wikipedia

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    In the 1990s, The Man They Could Not Hang was released on VHS by RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video. [7] In 2006, the film was included on a four-film DVD release titled "Icons of Horror Collection: Boris Karloff", accompanying The Black Room (1935), Before I Hang (1940), and The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942). [ 8 ]

  4. Hanging - Wikipedia

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    Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature. Hanging has been a standard method of capital punishment since the Middle Ages, and has been the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. The first known account of execution by hanging is in Homer's Odyssey. [1] Hanging is also a method of ...

  5. List of people who died by hanging - Wikipedia

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    Rainey Bethea, last public hanging in Kentucky, for rape and murder (14 August 1936) Roscoe "Red" Jackson, last public hanging in U.S., for murder (21 May 1937) Udham Singh, Indian revolutionary (31 July 1940) Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (9 April 1945) Irma Grese, German Nazi concentration camp guard and war criminal (13 December 1945)

  6. List of botched executions - Wikipedia

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    Gray's execution was the first in Mississippi after 1976. He repeatedly banged his head into an iron bar while being gassed. After Gray's execution, head restraints were added onto the iron bar inside of the gas chamber. [30] John Louis Evans (1983) – Electric chair. Evans's execution was the first in Alabama after 1976.

  7. Hanged, drawn and quartered - Wikipedia

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    A liuely Representation of the manner how his late Majesty was beheaded uppon the Scaffold Ian 30: 1648; A representation of the execution of the King's Judges. In the top pane, Charles I is shown awaiting his execution. In the bottom pane, one regicide is hanged and another quartered, while the latter's head is shown to the crowd.

  8. Category:Filmed executions - Wikipedia

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    This list may not reflect recent changes. * Beheading video; 0–9. 2016 Saudi Arabia mass execution; A. ... Saigon Execution;

  9. Death by Hanging - Wikipedia

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    Death by Hanging (絞死刑, Kōshikei) is a 1968 Japanese drama film directed by Nagisa Ōshima. The film employs Brechtian techniques and complex treatments of guilt and consciousness, justice, and the persecution of ethnic Koreans in Japan .