The Long Drop - History's Most BRUTAL Execution Method?
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Throughout the centuries there have been many execution methods used, but one of the most common was the gallows. But in Britain in the 19th century an executioner trialled using a longer drop to send someone to their deaths. William Marwood innovated and he came up with 'the long drop,' and this became the favoured execution method in Britain. Executioners such as Albert Pierrepoint then used this even during the Second World War, but if this execution method went wrong it could be harrowing.
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Got to say that the decapitation accident probably was pretty effective anyway. Black Jack might or might not have suffered much, but there was no doubt when it was over. As soon as the head left the body, he was deader than the proverbial door nail. Any other movement would have been just nerves twitching as the cells died individually.
I don''t know if anyone remembers this but in 2006 or there abouts one of Saddam Hussein's henchmen "Chemical Ali" was hanged and his head popped off as well sending the rest of his body crashing to the ground. I remember see Hussein's hanging and the rope and noose where quite thick and wound several more times than what would be done in a hanging in the U.S. Maybe that's why Ali lost his head.
I didn't know that about Chemical Ali!
@@DonnaLongus Yes, Talk Show hosts John and Ken had a field day when the event happened--making popping sounds during their broadcasts, etc.
As I recollect, Black Jack's head came off because they used his weight before he'd fattened up on jailhouse food for their calculation.
YES! Correct.
Passing peacefully in your sleep - History's most BRUTAL execution method?
That’s next week.
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It really depends on who you slept with
Hmm... I wouldn't necessarily conflate "unresponsive" with "unconscious". 🤔
On this channel, every method is the most BRUTAL 😂
Its actually asking if in your opinion it is the most brutal that's why there is a question mark
5:37 Black Jack Ketchum’s executioner made the mistake of using his weight when he was arrested as opposed to the day before his hanging. He managed to balloon up about 300lbs while incarcerated. Additionally he lost an arm in his last train robbery which unbalanced things a bit.
No sympathy here though. While they were building the gallows he could be heard yelling them “Hurry up! I could kill ten men in the time it’s taking you to kill me!”
The book The Executioners Tale, gives the calculation for the long drop method, whereas John C Woods used the short drop method on the Nuremberg Trial Prisoners which caysed more suffering
No, Woods didn´t use the short drop method.
He used the standard drop method, which is the "one size fits none" version of the long drop.
American hangmen were usually incompetent and/or drunk, so you cannot expect them to do math (or read a drop table).
Trial and error, but without the learning part...
@@exilbayer6377 Agreed, Woods was an incompetent hangman and a rather incompetent person period! He ended electrocuting himself while changing a light bulb. You might say he wasn't the brightest light--pun quite intended!
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I’m surprised his superiors didn’t recognize his incompetence and do something about it.
On the other hand, after seeing what the Nazis did in their camps, prisons and in newly conquered lands, the victors had little, if any, concern for those condemned to death.
In the UK the executioners, from Marwood onwards, did not have to work out the drop as the Home Office produced a table of drops, slightly modified in the early part of the 20th century. The prisoner was weighed on the evening before the execution and his/her height checked. All the executioner had to do was to consult the table of drops, adjust the rope so that the noose was presented to easily go over the prisoner's head and the length of free rope would give the desired drop.
When I google 'Book The Executioners Tale' I only get results for the 2014 Ginny Stroud book. Can you help?
In 1861 Sweden decided that hanging was cruel and banned it in favour for a less cruel punishment, beheading.
Unconscious or simply paralyzed? I suspect the latter. The long drop prevents victims from thrashing about, but i see no evidence that it produces unconsciousness.
you should read up on the definition of "brutal"...
They cannot all be the most brutal
It's a series...
@@TheFortress You are doing a really great work with the videos, but the titles make me often NOT watch them.
This time you earned yourself a "thump down".
Not for the video. Only for the title!
@@exilbayer6377 It's a series... the title of the series being 'History's Most BRUTAL execution method?' It's subjective, it's the title of a series aimed at engaging interest and communicating debate, but not to worry.
2:27 Nope. That asphyxiation stuff is okey'ish, but the snapping of the neck does not induce unconsciousness, but incapacitation.
What may results in unconsciousness (may, because it is not reliable), is the pressure spike, that the upwards sliding nose, induces into the big blood vessels in the neck. Also the breaking of the neck, will stop the heart. On this regard the asphyxiation, does sound to slow to me, to have any impact and is reserved to the shorter drops.
One of the LEAST brutal- IF the long-drop is used.
Nice video but it seems more humane than short drops
The long drop was designed for a quick kill.
A nice tale but some of the facts are medically incorrect.
What utter sensationalist BOLLOCKS
They can still hang you in Montana but they don’t.
If I were to be hanged, I would much prefer the long drop.
You say brutal what about the victims who where murdered by a bunch of cowards .
Back in those days, people were executed for a whole lot less than murder(could even be witchcraft) and the chances of wrongful conviction were significantly higher than today too. But yeah I wouldn't have sympathy for the actual murderers
Little bloodthirsty, are we? Are you under the impression that the victims are helped somehow if their killer suffers more?
@@RobertEWatersand we found the coward. The person that excuses the criminal of everything and think they should have a pleasant life at our cost .
No, the long drop method, by severing the spine, stopped the heart beating, and blood supply reaching the basal ganglia, killing almost instantly.
Every report he makes iOS the
Every thing he presents is the most horrible or brutal,the long drop was considered humane compared to the short drop .
What about the victims dont they matter?
I would call that crucifixion by the Romans.
Poor unlucky soul who was condemned to crucifixion in Coliseum. Apparently, he wasn't dying quick enough so kindling and wood was spread underneath the cross and a fire lit. Talk about a double whammy way to die in great pain. Ah those Romans--they were quite the funny people as far as entertainment goes.
Everybody going crazy over the "brutal" thing.. Chill my dudes, that's just how they named the series. It's good for SEO.
I’d say that the most brutal was Anne Boleyn whose head was chopped off. By a sword
@@FranSpong I call your Anne Boleyn and raise you a raging bull.
How does a decapitation result in a botched execution?
This should be shown to people who think we should bring capital punishment back in the UK. Not just because it's brutal and disturbing, but because even the most recent pictures are just obviously so old and document events so far in the past. Hopefully it would make some of them realise how much of a huge step backwards for us it would be.
I don't think they realise they asking for the return of something we abandoned well over half a century ago.
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