The man who could not be hanged
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Britain practiced the death penalty by hanging for a long time. It's a quick and clean way to deliver justice. It is also effective. It is indeed rare that the condemned person survives strangulation by the weight of his own body. But it happened to John Lee... three times in a row. It’s strange, very strange, the case of the man who could not be hanged...
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