{"slug": "hanging", "label": "Hanging", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q175111", "qid": "Q175111", "description": "death by suspension of a person (rarely an animal) by a noose or ligature around the neck", "entries": 15, "years": 13, "span": [681, 1885], "span_label": ["681 CE", "1885 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 10}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "tyburn", "label": "Tyburn", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anatolia", "label": "Anatolia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "john-king-of-england", "label": "John, King of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "king-of-the-romans", "label": "King of the Romans", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "otto-iv-holy-roman-emperor", "label": "Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "george-ii-of-great-britain", "label": "George II of Great Britain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jacobitism", "label": "Jacobitism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charles-edward-stuart", "label": "Charles Edward Stuart", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "orkney", "label": "Orkney", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "orleans", "label": "Orléans", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "leicester", "label": "Leicester", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 681, "year_label": "681 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Constantine IV agrees to a compromise, and persuades the army to return to their barracks in Anatolia. He invites the leaders of the rebellion to come to Constantinople and consult the Senate as to how to implement the terms. On their arrival, he arrests the leaders and has them hung at Sycae.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367426529#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "681", "revid": 1367426529, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1155, "year_label": "1155 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Arnold of Brescia is exiled by Adrian IV and forced to flee. He is arrested by imperial forces, hanged, and his body burned at the stake in Rome in June.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359485841#Europe", "title": "1155", "revid": 1359485841, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1199, "year_label": "1199 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 6", "text": "April 6 – Richard I dies from gangrene, caused by his crossbow wound. His younger brother, John (Lackland), becomes King of England. Richard's jewels are left to his nephew, Otto IV, King of the Romans. Mercadier, a mercenary captain and Richard's second in command, has Pierre Basile flayed alive and hanged.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369187159#Europe", "title": "1199", "revid": 1369187159, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1591, "year_label": "1591 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 3", "text": "3 November – O'Rourke is hanged at Tyburn. His son, Brian Oge O'Rourke, succeeds as lord.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1294797948#Events", "title": "1591 in Ireland", "revid": 1294797948, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Elizabeth Rutter is hanged as a witch in Middlesex, England, Agnes Berrye in Enfield, and nine women in Leicester on the testimony of a raving 13-year-old named John Smith, under the Witchcraft Act 1603. In Orkney, Elspeth Reoch is tried. In France Leger (first name unknown) is condemned for witchcraft on May 6, Sylvanie de la Plaine is burned at Pays de Labourde as a witch, and in Orléans eighteen witches are killed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#Date_unknown", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1725, "year_label": "1725 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 24", "text": "24 May – Jonathan Wild, fraudulent \"Thief Taker General\", is hanged in Tyburn, for actually aiding criminals.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320245388#Events", "title": "1725 in Great Britain", "revid": 1320245388, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1752, "year_label": "1752 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "June 1", "text": "1 June – Murder Act 1751 comes into effect, providing that the bodies of hanged murderers should suffer public dissection or (for men) hanging in the gibbet.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275835177#Events", "title": "1752 in Great Britain", "revid": 1275835177, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1753, "year_label": "1753 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 7", "text": "7 June – Archibald Cameron of Lochiel (born 1707) becomes the last Jacobite to be executed for treason when he is hanged and beheaded at Tyburn in London under a bill of attainder. On 26 March he has returned from exile in France in the service of Charles Edward Stuart to retrieve the Loch Arkaig treasure and to participate in a desperate plot to assassinate George II of Great Britain and other members of the British royal family. However, while staying secretly at Brenachyle by Loch Katrine, he has been betrayed by Alastair Ruadh MacDonnell of Glengarry (the notorious spy \"Pickle\") and members of his own clan and arrested.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353738495#Events", "title": "1753 in Scotland", "revid": 1353738495, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1789, "year_label": "1789 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 20", "text": "20 February – Hanging as a capital punishment was abolished.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343795250#Events", "title": "1789 in Norway", "revid": 1343795250, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1822, "year_label": "1822 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 27", "text": "27 November – Outside Newgate Prison in London, William Reading becomes the last person to be hanged for shoplifting.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1319401517#Events", "title": "1822 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1319401517, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1828, "year_label": "1828 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "17–24 December – Burke and Hare murders trial in Edinburgh: William Burke is sentenced to hang for his part in the murder of 17 victims (up to 31 October) to provide bodies for dissection by anatomist Robert Knox; his accomplice William Hare is released having turned King's evidence.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362254486#Events", "title": "1828 in Scotland", "revid": 1362254486, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1865, "year_label": "1865 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "July 28", "text": "28 July – English general practitioner Edward William Pritchard becomes the last person publicly hanged in Glasgow (on Glasgow Green), for poisoning his wife and mother-in-law in the city.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353739865#Events", "title": "1865 in Scotland", "revid": 1353739865, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1865, "year_label": "1865 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 10", "text": "November 10 – Captain Henry Wirz, Confederate superintendent of Andersonville Prison (Camp Sumter) is hanged, becoming the second of two combatants, and only serving regular soldier, to be executed for war crimes committed during the American Civil War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361545898#November", "title": "1865", "revid": 1361545898, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1885, "year_label": "1885 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 23", "text": "February 23 – An English executioner fails after several attempts to hang John Babbacombe Lee, sentenced for the murder of his employer Emma Keyse; Lee's sentence is commuted to life imprisonment.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366156062#February", "title": "1885", "revid": 1366156062, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1885, "year_label": "1885 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 23", "text": "23 February – The executioner at HM Prison Exeter fails after several attempts to hang John 'Babbacombe' Lee, sentenced for the murder of his employer Emma Keyse; Lee's sentence is commuted to life imprisonment.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351865542#Events", "title": "1885 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1351865542, "section": "Events"}}]}