Some thoughts on drop-hanging?

[Oliver]

A method that is not being talked about much. It's harder to set up for sure, but if it's done right, isn't death instant, and what are the risks of failing?

 

[Praestat_Mori]

You could only actually fail if your gallows breaks or the rope is not strong enough and you sit in the floor after the drop or someone finds you too early. I think the moost difficult part is to find a place high enough and a strong enough beam / ceiling hook or the like that can hold you. Death is instant when your neck breaks, if it doesn't you might suffer some agonizing minutes but ultimately you will die.

British table of drops to calculate the length of the rope:

Official Table of Drops - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[rozeske]

The difficulty of setup and precise calculation is why. If the setup fails to break your neck you will still die, it just wouldn't be as instant. The inhumaneness of such failure induced death is one of the reasons why they stopped using it in executions.