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Famous People Who Died by Hanging | List of Celebrity Hanging Deaths

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Legal hangings were performed regularly, the most public of which was the execution of the conspirators who were found guilty of killing Abraham Lincoln in 1865, just days after the close of the long and bloody Civil War.
Actors who committed suicide
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  • Alfie Anido. Actor Temptation Island (1980) ...
  • Jeremy Applegate. Actor Heathers (1988) ...
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  • Diana Barrymore. Actress.
On 8 May 1951, Pierrepoint and Dernley escorted convicted murderer James Inglis to the gallows immediately adjacent, and hanged him without delay — the fastest hanging on record, taking only seven seconds from the time his cell door was opened until his fatal 'long drop'.
Billy Bailey. When the death penalty was restored in 1976 following the Gregg v. Georgia ruling, most states that had executed inmates primarily by hanging prior to the ruling implemented lethal injection instead. Delaware's Billy Bailey was the last criminal to be hanged in the United States, in 1996.
List of People who died tragically (RIP)
  • Michael Jackson. Music Artist. ...
  • Heather O'Rourke. Actress Poltergeist (1982) ...
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  • Kurt Cobain. Music Artist. ...
  • Sylvia Plath. Writer. ...
  • Princess Diana. The Sun James Bond 'For Your Eyes Only' Television Commercial (1981) ...
  • Natalie Wood. Actress. ...
  • John Candy. Actor. Writer.