Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-02-21 | Page 14 | Strange as it May-Seem

I STRANGE AS IT MAY SEEM MAY SEEM I. I t I r MI J. t 7 7 I r t f 1 x CRo F loNE lONic MoNI L. L fRoM 10 AY I MA M reCIA ll r i Wi 7 INC I IN R Of HI ToN 10 o 6 m mt WIKI It II POOR Oti orl t r t t tie SHIP HIP E ESE SE t f fr r mf MI IN 27 7 D DAVS of H No Y WEEK reeK l A 4 I 5 ON ONlY y PAD MEN HC G S- S WeRE HANGED 1 Y A bulb U Nc S 6 O IN AL 8 n. n fOR foe ove oven 20 10 YeAR e tl IH Howie of o- ill WM P A MR MRS R. R RI WI 10 rt rott o N 1 II 1 Tit COR CORD n 1 I 1 1 l. l i Li I HANGING OF THE TIlE DEAD Strange as it seems in earliest times hanging was not used as a method of execution but as a mark of indignity to the lifeless bodies of already executed criminals In England Henry I popularized hanging as capital punishment by decreeing that all thieves taken should be hanged summarily without trial rial By the time of Henry II hanging was fully established as punishment punishment pun- pun for homicide In 17 1790 0 hanging was substituted for burning as a punishment for petty treason and in 1814 the beheading of male traitors was replaced by y the gallows Formerly in the worst cases of murder it was customary after execution to hang the criminals criminal's body near the scene of his crime This was known as gibbeting and though a prevalent custom was no part of the legal sentence according to Sir William Blackstone Not until 1752 was gibbeting recognized by statute The act empowered the judges to direct that the dead body of a murderer should be hanged or given over to surgeons to be dissected or anatomized Burial was forbidden except after dissection Copyright 1938 for The Telegram