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Hanging
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HANGING, punishment. Death by the halter, or the suspending of a criminal, condemned to suffer death, by the neck, until life is extinct. A mode of capital punishment.



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Observers believe that was the case in the public hanging of two gay teenagers (reportedly age 16 and 18) in the city of Mashad in July 2005.
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