Editing Hanging (section)

===Syria===
{{Main|Capital punishment in Syria}}
[[File:Eli Cohen.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Eli Cohen]], publicly hanged by Syria on 18 May 1965]]

Syria has publicly hanged people, such as two individuals in 1952, Israeli spy [[Eli Cohen]] in 1965, and a number of Jews accused of spying for Israel in 1969.<ref>{{cite book|first=Baylis|last=Thomas|title=How Israel was Won: A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict|url=https://archive.org/details/howisraelwaswonc00bayl|url-access=registration|year=1999|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-0-7391-0064-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/howisraelwaswonc00bayl/page/154 154]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Mitchell G. |last=Bard |title=The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict |edition=4th |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sVeKwfsHevgC&pg=PT193|date=September 2, 2008|publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley|DK]] |isbn=978-1-101-21720-7|page=193|access-date=5 January 2016|archive-date=3 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803011218/https://books.google.com/books?id=sVeKwfsHevgC&pg=PT193|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Michael L. |last=Brown|title=Our Hands Are Stained with Blood|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y2PseStkG3sC&pg=PA190|year=1992|publisher=Destiny Image |isbn=978-1-56043-068-1|page=190}}</ref>

According to a 19th-century report, members of the [[Alawite]] sect centred on [[Lattakia]] in Syria had a particular aversion towards being hanged, and the family of the condemned was willing to pay "considerable sums" to ensure its relations were [[Impalement|impaled]], instead of being hanged. As far as [[Johann Ludwig Burckhardt|Burckhardt]] could make out, this attitude was based upon the Alawites' idea that the soul ought to leave the body through the mouth, rather than leave it in any other fashion.<ref>Burckhardt, J. L. (1922). [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22956 <!-- quote=empaled. --> ''Travels in Syria and the Holy Land'']. London: John Murray. p. 156.</ref>

The [[Islamic State]] also used hanging post-mortem, after they [[Killing of captives by the Islamic State|executed alleged spies for the western-backed coalition]] in [[Deir ez-Zor Governorate|Deir ez-Zor]] by [[Exsanguination|cutting their throats]] in a [[slaughterhouse]], during the Islamic holiday of [[Eid al-Adha]] in 2016. They also used shooting, beheading, fire and other methods to execute people during their rule.{{cn|reason=Do not cite the [[WP:RS/P|generally unreliable]] New York Post|date=February 2025}}