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... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > social history of crime > courts, corrections, punishments > hanging

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hanging  

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  • Brought to the United States from England by colonial settlers, hanging as a method of state execution has put more offenders to death than any other method of execution in the history of the United States. Accounting for more than 16,000 executions, hanging was once employed by 48 states. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Hanging]

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