Please tell me that Reuters is kidding.
Today, Reuters has an article with the headline, “How will Saddam Hussein be hanged?“ Gee, I don’t know. How about by the neck? Really, I don’t make this stuff up. The article goes in depth about provisions in Iraqi law which outline the rights of the condemned but honestly, I can’t think of a more idiotic headline. Are the writers and editors at Reuters that moronic that they don’t understand how people are executed by hanging? Let me spell it out for them. Usually a noose, which is a loop tied in the end of a rope or wire is placed over the condemned person’s head and tightened around the neck. Then, either a trap door is opened underneath the person or the support upon which they are standing is removed. The rope or wire, which is tied off and supported above the condemned’s head, then tightens either snapping the neck of the condemned person or, if done incorrectly, causing death by slow asphyxiation. That is how a person is hanged.
Next, I will explain how to inflate a balloon or perhaps how to get out of bed or perhaps I’ll explain how to make your own cold fusion reactor. Maybe not. After all, there is some math involved in the reactor bit.