In the final days of , former Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein was hanged for the murders of people in Dujail, Iraq. While capital punishment is still on the books in many countries around the world, death by hanging has in many cases been replaced by more sterile killing methods like lethal injection , which some believe to be a more humane form of execution.
Many people might be surprised to learn that hanging, when carried out with modern techniques, can be one of the quickest and most painless ways to be executed. The modern method of judicial hanging is called the long drop.
This is the method that Iraqi officials used to execute Saddam Hussein. In the long drop, those planning the execution calculate the drop distance required to break the subject's neck based on his or her weight, height and build. The less the person weighs, the longer the drop needs to be. The goal of the long drop is to get the body moving quickly enough after the trap door opens to produce between 1, and 1, foot-pounds of torque on the neck when the noose jerks tight.
This distance can be anywhere from 5 to 9 feet 1. With the knot of the noose placed at the left side of the subject's neck, under the jaw, the jolt to the neck at the end of the drop is enough to break or dislocate a neck bone called the axis , which in turn should sever the person's spinal cord.
In some cases, the hangman jerks up on the rope at the precise moment when the drop is ending in order to facilitate the breakage. The idea of a 'humane hanging" was developed by an Irish mathematician and doctor named Samuel Haughton. He calculated how far the prisoner would have to fall and then be brought up by a jerk on the rope so they would be killed quickly and relatively painlessly. Haughton published his findings in The findings of the abovementioned study, indicate that the oPt has the largest burden of mental disorders in the Eastern Mediterranean region, where nearly every country has a rate of mental disorders higher than the global average.
Other mental disorders, including schizophrenia, affective disorder, and neurosis, are also likely to be under-treated and under-reported. According to the study, the main causes of mental health deterioration in Gaza are recurrent violence, the ongoing blockade, deteriorating living conditions, including increasing poverty, and a sense of hopelessness.
While the extended family in Palestinian society has traditionally been an important coping mechanism, increasing poverty has put enormous strain on families and eroded its resilience— a key trigger for mental health issues among children in Gaza.
The Great March of Return GMR demonstrations, which took place between and , initially had a positive effect on mental health, injecting a sense of agency, hope, and unprecedented community mobilization.
As Dr. Here we just keep people breathing. More recently, widespread COVID restrictions, and the resulting economic deterioration, have exacerbated the situation, with mental health service providers reporting a spike in calls to hotlines and for phone counselling from people threatening self-harm and general psychosocial distress.
Accordingly, MHPSS service providers in Gaza have rapidly had to develop methods to reach people remotely, some operating around the clock. There is growing concern about a surge in domestic GBV in the context of pandemic-related lockdowns and increasing socio-economic hardship.
According to Dr. There are increasing numbers of women and girls coming to the clinic with post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders, and all types of stress-related illnesses. Al-Masri explains. In judicial hangings, as opposed to suicides, there is significant damage to the spinal cord. If the victims fall more than the prescribed distance, they may even pick up enough speed that the noose itself decapitates them, as happened Monday to the former Iraqi dictator's half brother Barzan Ibrahim.
In rare cases, intense fear can cause the victim to die of cardiac arrest. Even when the neck is broken, Hillman says, there is still blood containing oxygen in the brain. The brain can still function at some level until that oxygen is used up. In praxes, this means that facial movements can still occur even after the head has been severed from the body. They were to be hung by the neck until dead , and which postmortems are expected to confirm. Its potential as a deterrent in particular, a popular claim that imagines the state as an imposing executioner, is yet to be demonstrated, especially for crimes against women.
That said, the act of hanging itself is gruesome in its right, using a method that dates to ancient Greece and technology to the midth century, although there have been many adjustments. India itself uses a method called the long-drop. Since then, people have been executed, nearly half of them by the Government of Uttar Pradesh. Until the midth century or so, the short-drop hanging was the most common method.
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