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Hanging has been a common method of capital punishment since medieval times, and is the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. Hanging is also a common method of suicide in which a person applies a ligature to the neck and brings about unconsciousness and then death by suspension. Partial suspension or partial weight-bearing on the ligature is sometimes used, particularly in prisons, mental hospitals or other institutions, where full suspension support is difficult to devise, because high ligature points e. There are four ways of performing a judicial hanging: A mechanised form of hanging, the upright jerker , was also experimented with in the 18th century, with a variant of it used today in Iran.