• the homosexual content of the works of António Botto led Catholic students to call for the author's hanging?
• public hangings used to take place near the site of the Municipal Corporation Building, Mumbai (pictured), India?
• on 14 August 1936 Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, thus becoming the last person to be publicly executed in the United States?
• the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show (1956–1957) featured Virginia Gregg as Mary Surratt, the woman hanged for conspiracy stemming from the Lincoln assassination?
• the SS-physician Alfred Trzebinski, who was involved in the homicide of 20 children at the former school Bullenhuser Damm, was executed by hanging in 1946?
• the first three residents of the John Kane House were a man nearly hanged for treason, a Patriot turned British Loyalist, and George Washington?
• the western outlaw L.H. Musgrove "calmly puffed a cigar to its bitter butt" as he awaited hanging by vigilantes in Denver, Colorado, in 1868?
• in the 15th century, cutting down a Nebbiolo grapevine in the Piedmont region of La Morra was punishable by a heavy fine, hanging, or having your right hand cut off?
• in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, when Dorothy Talbye fell into despair with fits of violence in 1638, she was excommunicated from the church, bound and chained to a post, publicly whipped and finally, after murdering her daughter, hanged?
• John Martin Scripps was the first Briton in Singapore to be sentenced to death by hanging?
• Józef Kossakowski (pictured), bishop and writer, was one of several prominent Polish politicians sentenced to hanging as traitors in the aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising?
• George W. Barrett was the first person sentenced to death by hanging under a congressional act that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent?
• Konstantin Danzas (pictured) was arrested for his role as Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's second in his fatal duel with d'Anthès and sentenced to hanging?
• Rachel Wall was the first American-born female pirate, and the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts?
• in 1582 Ursula Kemp confessed to using familiar spirits to kill her neighbours and was later hanged for witchcraft?
• Voina is a Russian art collective whose provocative works have included public group sex and staged hangings?
• Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters were simultaneously hanged in 1923 for the murder of Thompson's husband, even though Bywaters committed the crime on his own?

Facts on topics related to Hanging

Capital punishment

• "quickfire", a form of arson employed in Scandinavian blood feuds, was punishable by death only if the perpetrator was caught in the act and killed at the scene of the crime?
• Lee Boyd Malvo entered an Alford plea in 2004 for his role in the Beltway sniper attacks, as part of a plea deal to avoid the death penalty?
• Alse Young is believed to have been the first person to be executed as a witch in the American colonies?
• Archibald Cameron of Locheil was the last man to be executed for his part in Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite rebellion?
• Arthur William Hodge was the only white person in the history of the British West Indies to be executed for killing a black slave?
• Basheba Spooner was the first woman to be executed in the United States of America, for the murder of a Minuteman who had raped her?
• Dr. Chris Hatcher convinced the jury in a capital punishment case without having interviewed the defendant?
• Froduald Karamira, sentenced to death for his role in the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, was one of the last individuals executed before capital punishment was abolished in the country?
• Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia gave away his cat to one of the soldiers tasked with his execution?
• Hastings Wise is the sixth person to waive appeals of the death sentence in South Carolina since the state resumed executions after Gregg v. Georgia?
  

Gas chamber

• as Burton Abbott was being executed in California's gas chamber in 1957, the governor was contacting the warden to stay the execution?

Decapitation

• Sergeant Len Siffleet was the subject of a famous photograph (pictured) depicting an execution by the Japanese in World War II?
• Viking warlord Sigurd Eysteinsson was killed by the severed head of his enemy?
• according to legend, the eponymous ancestor of Clan McCorquodale was awarded lands for recovering the decapitated head of Alpin, father of Kenneth MacAlpin, King of Scots?
• it took four sword strokes for St. Bademus' (pictured) terrified executioner to sever his head?
• three Queens of England and several British nobles were beheaded in Tower Green, a space within the Tower of London?
• when rival colleague Zhang Yanshang suggested the Tang Dynasty chancellor Liu Hun be more silent, Liu commented that his tongue would not stop even if he were decapitated?

Execution by firing squad

• Otto Schimek was himself later executed for refusing to join a firing squad executing a Polish family in 1944?
• Sean MacDermott, a leader of the Easter Rising of 1916, was executed by firing squad?
• convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner watched The Lord of the Rings film trilogy before being executed by firing squad?
• the last execution by firing squad in France took place in 1963 at Fort d'Ivry in Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris?

Hanged

• German-born Guenther Podola was the last man to be hanged in Britain for killing a police officer?
• a group of angry American colonists inspired by the Boston Tea Party gave the owner of a tea ship, Peggy Stewart (pictured) the option to burn his ship or be hanged on October 19, 1774?
• the case of Styllou Christofi, the penultimate woman to be hanged in Britain, failed to cause a public outcry because she, in the opinion of her executioner Albert Pierrepoint, was not very glamorous?