Hanging as default execution method

Following up on the guillotine thread, how is it possible for hanging to be the default way of execution in the United States, especially given the "sophisticated" long drop technique?
 
Following up on the guillotine thread, how is it possible for hanging to be the default way of execution in the United States, especially given the "sophisticated" long drop technique?

Lots of lethal injections being botched and no hangings being botched? This can lead to people concluding that hanging is more humane.
 
The problem is preventing the introduction of the electric chair. Until that came along hanging was the default method.
 
Hanging was deemed problematic also because sometimes the hanging resulted in decapitation, and people don't want to see that, just like with Guillotines.
 
NY not using Sudden Suspension as the hanging form might do it. The extent to which it was routinely botched and gruesome even when done right directly led to NY developing the electric chair. Without the example of NY I could see hanging remaining common for longer. The US embracing the British variable drop method might also do it since it's less likely to be botched and cause gruesome spectacles like decapitation or strangling.
 
Well, in bad taste, i consider that to be hilarious.
I'm actually curious to know how much that happened actually.

Not sure how common but Black Jack Ketchum had that happen to him when he was hanged in NM in 1901. Apparently gaining weight after they weigh you to do the rope length calculations can cause it and Ketchum spent his death row time eating and nothing else. I remember there was a news story that it also happened when one of Saddam's aides in Iraq was hanged a few years back as well. That one was supposedly filmed and created a bit of a scandal.
 
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