The Singaporean pathologists found that Mr. Todd's body showed signs of death by hanging.

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While Ashtari was put to death by hanging on Monday, the execution was officially announced by the government Saturday.

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Lord Justice GEOFFREY LAWRENCE (Nuremberg trial): Defendant Hermann Wilhelm Goering, the International Military Tribunal sentences you to death by hanging.

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An Iraqi court sentenced Hashemi to death by hanging on Sunday after being convicted of running death squads, a charge he says was politically motivated.

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Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants were sentenced Sunday to death by hanging for their role in the deaths of 148 villagers from the town of Dujail, where torture and executions followed a failed assassination attempt on Saddam in 1982.

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Singapore police have been investigating Todd's death as a suicide by hanging.

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Shane Todd's death, in June 2012, was registered as a suicide by hanging.

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