Oh, and bonus points if this dramatically super accurate shot comes directly after a firefight in which both sides clearly graduated from the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy. But otherwise, their destructive capabilities are limited to the direct path of a projectile that's much more narrow than an arrow head. Another possibility was to pay out so much rope that when the drop finally ends, the body energy gets so high that the head tears off.Īrguably, using bullets at all is fueled by Reality Is Unrealistic: People are used to thinking of bullets as having immense destructive power, which they do when shot into a fluid-filled object like a human body. Though in a few cases hangmen have deliberately "botched" the hanging to make the victim's death more painful (for example, after Nazi war criminal Julius Streicher yelled "Heil Hitler" just before his execution, it is widely believed that the hangman repositioned the noose so that he would be strangled). Normal, "long drop" hanging kills by breaking the neck when done correctly-that is, in a Robin Hood story the slowly strangling victim is not so implausible, because they haven't yet figured how much rope to use, and this often resulted in "short drop" hanging, where the body's energy is not enough to break the neck, and the rope just slowly strangle the victim.īut this is unlikely to be the case when bullets are used, because at this point executioners have already learned the proper method. You see, people may have only figured out how to do hanging consistently correctly in the nineteenth century, but then they started to do it the scientific way. If the victim struggles to breathe in the process, you have a case of either not doing the research, or an incompetent or exceptionally cruel hangman. No noose is good noose.Ī comedic subversion of this has the arrow not quite split the rope all the way, leaving the victim dangling (and strangling) until his rescuers can finish the job. He looks pretty much boned, right? Nope, the Big Damn Heroes are on the way! They'll save him by splitting the rope on the noose with a well-timed arrow (or a blade, or a bullet, if the time period's a bit later), just as he's about to take a long drop on a short rope. The hero's been led to the gallows and is about to do the metaphorical 'hemp fandango'.
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