...RA Quinton, M.D.; D Dolinak, M.D. In a three month period of 2000, three suicide hanging deaths involving the use of telephone cords occurred in Texas jails and were autopsied at the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas. In each case, the telephone was located within the cell...

... house key, which he used to let himself in after school. His mother found him hanging on the corner of the bedpost by the lanyard when she returned from work. The death scene showed that he was jumping on the bed and the lanyard hooked over the top of the corner bedpost, causing first and second...

.... to obtain specific data for all persons executed in the U.S. since 1976. Of the five methods of execution used (lethal injection, lethal gas, electrocution, hanging, and firing squad), significant differences emerged as measured by rate of complications, duration of time spent by the condemned in the “death...

...OA Shalaby, M.S.; LML deCarvalho; ML Lee Goff, Ph.D. Decomposition studies were conducted to determine differences in rates and patterns of decomposition of carcasses hanging and exposed on the surface of the soil. These studies were conducted between 17 October and 17 December 1997 inside...

... of hanging deaths in children 13 years of age or younger. The age range was 2½ to 13 years and only two of the 12 victims were female. There were three unequivocal suicides, five accidental deaths and four cases where, despite extensive investigation, the manner of death remained undetermined. The scene...

... 1990 toxicology ethanol postmortem chemistry multisite sampling aspiration of vomitus fresh-water drowning intravenous fluid therapy hanging References Garriott , J. C. , Medical Aspects of Alcohol Determination in Biological Specimens , PSG Publishing Company , Littleton...