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Musically, "Hung Up" is a dance-pop, [13] disco, [14] nu-disco [15] [16] and electro [17] song. According to The New York Times, the song has vaguely familiar hooks, sustained overlays of the string arrangement and acoustic guitar enfolding the music to create a haze-like sound. [18]
John Ogilvie, who in 1615 was hanged and disembowelled after torture for his refusal to give up the Catholic faith and convert to Protestantism. In the absence of fracture and dislocation, occlusion of blood vessels becomes the major cause of death, rather than asphyxiation.
Gibbeting is the use of a gallows-type structure from which the dead or dying bodies of criminals were hanged on public display to deter other existing or potential criminals. Occasionally, the gibbet ( / ˈ dʒ ɪ b ɪ t / ) was also used as a method of public execution , with the criminal being left to die of exposure, thirst and/or ...
To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland. The convicted traitor was fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn behind a horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the ...
Hanging was one method of execution in Colonial America. According to the Espy file, Daniel Frank was hanged in 1623 for cattle theft in the Jamestown colony. [4] [5] John Billington is thought to be one of the first men to be hanged in New England; Billington was convicted of murder in September 1630 after he shot and killed John Newcomen.
Derek Bentley, English man hanged for aiding the murder of a police officer during an attempted robbery (28 January 1953) Ruth Ellis, Welsh model, escort and last woman executed in the United Kingdom who was accused and executed for the murder of her lover (13 July 1955) Genzo Kurita, Japanese serial killer (14 October 1959)
A petard from a 17th-century manuscript of military designs "Hoist with his own petard" is a phrase from a speech in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet that has become proverbial.
After a while, the bodies were hung by their feet from the metal girder framework of a half-built service station. [53] [54] [55] This mode of hanging had been used in northern Italy since medieval times to stress the "infamy" of the hanged. However, the reason given by those involved in hanging Mussolini and the others in this way was to ...