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Hang ’em High and Fast

by | Jul 1, 2008 | Inside History

Or strangle 'em low and slow.
Thanks to an inquiry from my electrician friend Rob Brown of Montrose, Colorado, I am treating you to a medical discussion of Old West hangings. Hangings in Western movies are about as common as whiskey drinking. To see the act portrayed in a medically accurate manner, however, is uncommon. Consider the depictions in the 1968 movie Hang ’Em High with Clint Eastwood (Marshal Jed Cooper), Ben


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