Saddam....30 days and counting

[Freckles]

T"It is impossible for a person to be decapitated during a hanging,"

This is not true. The length of rope must be calculated carefully to the weight of the person.
There are charts on the web describing this.

[lizbud]

Quote:

"Khalaf al-Olayan, a leader of the main Sunni bloc in parliament, demanded to see any video taken during the execution.

"It is impossible for a person to be decapitated during a hanging," he told Al-Jazeera television. "This shows that they (the government) have mutilated the body and this is a violation of the law."

"We want to see the video that was taken during the execution of the two men in order for them (government) to prove what they are saying," he added.
"


Well this guy doesn't believe it and I have never heard of such a thing
either. It just sounds weird.

[Freckles]

It's true. I learned this a few years ago when a very bad Vancouver man was hanged.
Try a search on the web and you can even find a chart with the information.

The things we can find on the web!

[Twisterdog]

According to MSNBC News Services, 2:46 p.m. MT Jan 15, 2007, BAGHDAD, Iraq:


"Hangmen gauge the length of rope needed to snap the neck of the condemned but not to create enough force to sever the head.

Saleem al-Jibouri, a senior Sunni Arab lawmaker, said Ibrahim's body might have been weakened by the cancer he was suffering."

[Vela]

Umm ewwwwww!