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What exactly happens when you get executed by hanging? Technically speaking.
gpt
It depends. There are four different kinds of hanging: suspending, short, standard, and long. Suspending is putting a noose around someone and then lifting them up which strangles them. 
A short drop is when you are on and object and that object is removed, leaving you dangling there.. The drop isn't enough to break your neck so you are again strangled.
The standard drop is the more popular (obviously) and was     developed in Britain in the mid 1800s. The victim would be on a platform about 6 feet in the air and the platform would release, breaking the victim's neck, causin instant paralysis, etc. Because of this instant breaking of the neck, tho was seen as more humane which is why it was widely accepted in the world.
The long drop is nearly the same as the standard except calculations were used to make the noose as short as possible but still be able to break the neck. This was developed shortly after the standard. The problem with the standard is that all of the victims suffered the same drop and if there was that great of a distance of a drop for the wrong size person, the person would be decapitated (which if it's a public execution, it would be quite gruesome).