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'''Half hanging''' was a method of [[torture]] used primarily on [[British]] soldiers captured in the [[Sudan]]. The victim was hung, as if to be really executed, until he was weak from want of air, when he would be taken down. The uncertainty of if you were really going to be hung or not made it more effective. | '''Half hanging''' was a method of [[torture]] used primarily on [[British]] soldiers captured in the [[Sudan]]. The victim was hung, as if to be really executed, until he was weak from want of air, when he would be taken down. The uncertainty of if you were really going to be hung or not made it more effective. | ||
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