The trial of Tony Bliar

[wonderwaif]

I've taped it so I can watch it again whenever I need cheering up.
Hopefully it's a two-parter and we get to see the bar-steward swing next week.

[wendigo100]

Let's hope the hangman is as efficient as yesterday's & his fecking head falls off...

Yes - but how did that happen?

[Spacecadet]

Yes - but how did that happen?

The rope was too long

[PRC1964]

Yes - but how did that happen?

Case report

Decapitation as a result of suicidal hanging



Markus A. Rothschildhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/scidiri...ties/REcor.gif, http://www.sciencedirect.com/scidiri...es/REemail.gif and Volkmar Schneider

Institute of Forensic Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Hittorfstrasse 18, D-14195 Berlin, Germany

Received 13 July 1999; revised 16 September 1999; accepted 16 September 1999. Available online 3 January 2000.




Abstract

A report is presented on a 47 year old man who committed suicide by hanging himself from a staircase bannister of an apartment house. The man, weighing 144 kg jumped with the noose of a 2 cm thick and 2 m long hemp rope around his neck and was completely decapitated. Death from typical “normal” suicidal hanging is usually due to cerebral ischaemia caused by compression of the carotid (and vertebral) arteries. Except for bleeding at the clavicular insertions of the sternocleidomastoid muscles there are only occasional injuries to the cervical soft parts or hyoid bone and/or laryngeal cartilage. A fall with a noose around the neck, on the other hand, is associated with more frequent injuries to cervical structures through additional axial traction and radial shearing forces of the tightening noose. Complete decapitation can occur in rare cases under extreme conditions (heavy body weight, inelastic and/or thin rope material, fall from a great height).

Author Keywords: Decapitation; Hanging; Vital reactions
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/scidiri...ties/REcor.gif Corresponding author. Tel.: +49-30-8445-1303; fax: +49-30-8445-1353; email: rothschild@medizin.fu-berlin.de

[Troll]

As the brain lives on for a short while - presumably you are able to watch your body on the floor while your head bobs about.

I think lethal injection is more appropriate these days

[DimPrawn]

You can't beat a good stoning. That's the way foreward.

[Churchill]

You can't beat a good stoning. That's the way foreward.

Who threw that?

She did!!!

[Buffoon]

As the brain lives on for a short while - presumably you are able to watch your body on the floor while your head bobs about.

Even more reason to hang B'Liar.

[realityhack]

As the brain lives on for a short while - presumably you are able to watch your body on the floor while your head bobs about.

I think lethal injection is more appropriate these days

http://europeanhistory.about.com/library/bldyk10.htm

The current medical consensus is that life does survive, for a period of roughly thirteen seconds, varying slightly depending on the victim's build, health and the immediate circumstances of the decapitation. The simple act of removing a head from a body is not what kills the brain, rather, it is the lack of oxygen and other important chemicals provided in the bloodstream. To quote Dr. Ron Wright "The 13 seconds is the amount of high energy phosphates that the cytochromes in the brain have to keep going without new oxygen and glucose" (Cited from urbanlegends.com, no longer extant). The precise post-execution lifespan will depend on how much oxygen, and other chemicals, were in the brain at the point of decapitation; however, eyes could certainly move and blink. This solely technical survival forms only part of the answer; the second question is 'how long does the victim remain aware?' While the brain remains chemically alive, consciousness can cease immediately, especially if the victim is knocked unconscious by the force of the decapitating blow. Conversely, an individual could remain self-aware - able to see through their eyes and understand what has happened - for much of the thirteen-second period. There is no consistency in this answer, as the precise length of both actual, and practical, survival will vary depending on the victim. Of course, this applies to many forms of swift decapitation, and not just to the victims of la guillotine.

[foritisme]

13 seconds !! Enough time to repent after a life of sin.

Chico you are wasting your time - go and enjoy yourself