Editing Hanging (section)

==== Pole method ====
[[File:Hromadná poprava Srbů.jpg|thumb|Mass execution using "pole-hanging" of Serbs by the [[Austro-Hungarian army]] in 1916]]
A short-drop variant is the [[Austro-Hungarian]] "pole" method, called {{lang|de|Würgegalgen}} (literally: strangling gallows), in which the following steps take place:

# The condemned is made to stand before a specialized vertical pole or pillar, approximately {{convert|3|metres|ft}} in height.
# A rope is attached around the condemned's feet and routed through a pulley at the base of the pole.
# The condemned is hoisted to the top of the pole by means of a sling running across the chest and under the arms.
# A narrow-diameter noose is looped around the prisoner's neck, then secured to a hook mounted at the top of the pole.
# The chest sling is released, and the prisoner is rapidly jerked downward by the assistant executioners via the foot rope, thus resulting in strangulation and death. 

This method was later also adopted by the successor states, most notably by [[Czechoslovakia]], where the "pole" method was used as the single type of execution from 1918 until 1954, when the prison hosting Czechoslovakia's executions, [[Pankrác Prison]], constructed an indoor gallows that exclusively accommodated short-drop hangings to replace the pole method.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Olga Hepnarová - The Last Woman Executed in Czechoslovakia |url=https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hepnarova.html |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=Capital Punishment UK}}</ref> Nazi war criminal [[Karl Hermann Frank]], executed in 1946 in [[Prague]], was among approximately 1,000 condemned people executed by the pole hanging method in Czechoslovakia.<ref name="KHF">{{cite web|url=http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/05/22/1946-karl-hermann-frank/|title=1946: Karl Hermann Frank|date=22 May 2009|website=Executedtoday.com|access-date=8 October 2017|archive-date=19 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019024441/http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/05/22/1946-karl-hermann-frank/|url-status=live}}</ref>