The experience of being hanged is heavily dependent on various factors like the placement of the rope around the neck and the individual's physical condition. It could range from being unconscious within a minute to choking and convulsing for 15 minutes or more.
In Medieval Europe, untouchables often had side jobs like cleaning latrines and picking up dead animals that nobody else wanted to do. Contrary to popular belief, not everyone in Medieval Europe was rich, and they relied on experts' advice even in matters of torture directions.
The Saturday Night Live experience taught the speaker to become tougher as it required repeatedly attempting to rise from the ashes like a Phoenix even in the face of disappointing performances that couldn't be avoided.
Friedland explains how the broadsheets of the 1840s catered to the salacious and pulp-like interests of the new penal voyeurs who were gathering in windows overlooking scaffoldings during executions. These voyeurs processed the execution scenes almost as if they were watching one of Pierre Cornell's tragic characters, highlighting their interest in the intimate moments of life and death.
A watcher hears a soft step and then something heavy hitting the table, nearly pushing him over before feeling something fall on the floor with a violent thump that shakes the whole house.