Editing Hanging (section)

====Silken rope====
In the UK, some felons are traditionally said to have been executed by hanging with a silken rope:
* [[Hereditary peer]]s who committed [[capital offence]]s,<ref>{{cite Hansard |title=Abolition of death penalty for treason and piracy, etc |url=http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199798/ldhansrd/vo980212/text/80212-26.htm |jurisdiction=United Kingdom |house=House of Lords |date=12 February 1998 |column=1350 |speaker=[[Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn|Lord Williams of Mostyn]] |position=[[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs]] |quote=The noble Lord, [[Oliver Eden, 8th Baron Henley|Lord Henley]], asked me about the privilege of being hanged with a silken rope. That was discriminatory, because it applied to hereditary Peers only. }}</ref> as anticipated by the fictional [[Duke of Denver]], brother of [[Lord Peter Wimsey]]. The Duke was accused of murder in the novel ''[[Clouds of Witness]]'', and this execution would have been his fate, after conviction by his peers in a trial in the [[House of Lords]]. It has been claimed that the execution of [[Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers|Earl Ferrers]] in 1760 – the only time a peer was hanged after trial by the [[House of Lords]] – was carried out with the normal hempen rope instead of a silk one. The writ of execution does not specify a silk rope be used,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.languageandlaw.org/TEXTS/WRITS/EXECUTE.HTM |title=Writ of Execution |last=Tiersma |first=Peter |website=Language and Law |access-date=8 October 2017 |archive-date=23 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823175959/http://www.languageandlaw.org/TEXTS/WRITS/EXECUTE.HTM |url-status=live }}</ref> and ''[[The Newgate Calendar]]'' makes no mention of the use of such an item<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ng284.htm |website=The Newgate Calendar |title=Laurence, Earl Ferrers |via=The Ex-Classics Web Site |access-date=8 October 2017 |archive-date=18 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118233700/http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ng284.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> – an unusual omission given its highly sensationalist nature.
* Those who have the [[Freedom of the City of London]].<ref>{{cite web |title=History | date=30 April 2004 |url=http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/scripts/htm_hl.pl?DB=col&STEMMER=en&WORDS=histori%20history&ALL=&ANY=&EXACTB=0&PHRASE=&EXACTP=0&CATEGORIES=&SIMPLE=history&COLOUR=Red&STYLE=s&URL=http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Leisure_and_culture/Local_history_and_heritage/Freedom_of_City/priveleges.htm#muscat_highlighter_first_match |publisher=City of London |access-date=12 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612204545/http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/scripts/htm_hl.pl?DB=col&STEMMER=en&WORDS=histori%20history&ALL=&ANY=&EXACTB=0&PHRASE=&EXACTP=0&CATEGORIES=&SIMPLE=history&COLOUR=Red&STYLE=s&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cityoflondon.gov.uk%2FCorporation%2FLGNL_Services%2FLeisure_and_culture%2FLocal_history_and_heritage%2FFreedom_of_City%2Fpriveleges.htm#muscat_highlighter_first_match |archive-date=12 June 2011}}</ref>

<gallery widths="200px" heights="200px">File:Witches Being Hanged.jpg|An image of suspected [[witch]]es being hanged in England, published in 1655
File:Balvenie Pillar 2017-05-27.jpg|Balvenie Pillar, also known as {{lang|gd|Tom na Croiche}} (Hangman's Knoll, {{literal translation|Tom of the Cross}}). The pillar was erected in 1755 to commemorate the last public hanging in the [[Atholl]] region of Scotland in 1630.
Image:ExecutionNoose.JPG|Hanging noose used at public executions outside [[Lancaster Castle]], {{circa|1820s–1830s}}.
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