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* And, as Skeeve learned in the ''[[Myth Adventures]]'' series by Robert Asprin, never try to {{spoiler|hang a Pervect by the neck.}}
** They've tried to {{spoiler|hang Skeeve too, but being a wizard, he just levitated}}. Of course, Aahz is a wizard as well, {{spoiler|but he was depowered at the time, so he survived because Pervects have extremely strong neck muscles}}.
* The head of the [[Thieves' Guild]] in ''[[Dragonlance|Dragons of Summer Flame]]'' is a man named Lynched Geoffery (or just Lynch), so called because he ''was'' lynched and lived to tell about it (just don't ask to see his neck if you value life or limb). Also subverted later in the same book- he antagonizes the [[Evil Overlord]] in a misguided attempt to get an alliance, and the response is two words- "Hang him." This hanging goes rather well- after all, Lynch already had practice!
* Pangloss from ''[[Candide]]''. [[Crapsack World|It's not sure it was for the better]].
* Roger in the ''[[Outlander (Literature)|Outlander]]'' series.
* ''[[Discworld]]'''s [[Con Man|Moist von Lipwig]] is a subversion - Vetinari deliberately has him publicly hanged "to within half an inch of his life" to fake his death so that he can keep Moist on as a [[Boxed Crook]].
* You can hang a [[Hoka]], but it won't hurt him (they have unusually strong neck muscles), and he'll consider it all part of whatever fiction is currently being lived out.
* Juliette, from the [[
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' one of Beric Dondarrion's numerous rumored deaths is being hanged. As it turns out, he was, and died. He just came back after.
* [[Sharpe]]'s nemesis Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill survived a hanging, and claimed that this meant that God had chosen him to be spared and therefore he couldn't be killed. The firing squad proved him wrong on that count later on, though.
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* In real life, on the other hand, most "hanging" sentences are more specifically enunciated as "hanged until dead". Even if being hanged doesn't snap the victim's neck, staying there for a while would almost definitely suffocate anyone. It's more slow and painful but it would get the job done. This is intended to ensure the demise of a would-be [[Rules Lawyer]].
** There was allegedly a time in America where surviving [[Rule of Three|three]] attempted executions of any kind was considered an act of God, and you were given a life sentence instead, if not ''set free.''
*** This was also the case in Britain, and happened to [
*** And [
*** Also in Imperial Russia.
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