"Jim, your story was just a hoary old myth."
Prove it Keith - the fact that nobody mentioned something that is not often talked about in public is immaterial
For someone who claims not to support capital punishment, you seem to put an enormous amount of effort into defending it - a bit like your "non-support" for Ukip
Quite franky, I'be become totally bored with hit-'n-run comments by people like you why claim one thing then prove the opposite
Your return to "scholarly articles" - as with your "real historians" is pathetic
Your "scholarly articles amount to one Wiki (scholarly???) article by an anonymous contributor, on from Dr Dinesh Rao (who?) who deals mainly with strangulation, not execution and devotes half a dozen lines to the subject of judicial handing, which he/she touches on superficially, one anonymous article which deals with execution by strangulation in foreign countries and doesn't mention the methods used by British hangmen with their technique of planning to break the neck rather than strangle their victims - the main cause of expulsion of bodily matter and innards – and last but not least – one from "Academia" which it totally inaccessible, which is obvios as you have been unable to access it and have just grabbed a handy looking title
Your phantom "experts and historians" ride again   
You are not evening to pretend that these people are experts
I have no intention of nausing up another thread by responding to your attention-seeking idiocy
If you have anything positive to offer – feel free
If not – please don't tell me something about what I have always been aware of
Go and find some real "experts" if you feel you have a case
Jim Carroll