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‘hanging method of capital punishment’

Choking with Mirth: Gallows Humor

Choking with Mirth: Gallows Humor You may have noticed a reprehensible penchant in this blog for light-hearted looks at topics such as self-decapitation, hangman’s ropes, cholera jokes, and unusual methods of execution. Today we sink even further into the mire of inappropriate mirth with a post about gallows humor: period jokes about execution by hanging.