Both sides shot and hanged prisoners without mercy, and on at least two occasions Patriots enforced the gruesome punishment of hanging, drawing and quartering.
It's 25 years since Ian Curtis hanged himself, casting a long shadow on Joy Division's already sombre music.
Most seriously of all, Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister Musharraf ousted in a coup in 1999, won a landslide victory and initiated a treason trial for which the former dictator could be hanged if found guilty.
In one run-down camp, living in a cramped room housing eight people, where clothes were hanged to the walls and valued possessions were stuffed under tiny bunk beds, was Hassan, a new arrival from Ghana.
I thought, most of all, of Oleg Bebenin, Sannikov's press secretary and close friend, founder of the Belarussian citizens' rights group Charter 97, who was found hanged at his dacha in 2010 with unexplained bruises on his hand, chest and back.
Following the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion against Catholic James II, the inn served as a court for the notorious Judge Jeffreys, and 180 rebels were hanged there in 1685.
One of my aunts went to Leeds prison to stand outside while some multi-murderer was hanged.
Charles Peace, a cat burglar hanged in 1879, is represented not just by his ingenious folding stepladder but by the violin with which he was apparently an excellent performer.
Officers are also reinvestigating the suspicious death of a 15-year-old boy, found hanged in his home in north Solihull in 1997, three months after the two boys disappeared.
In one photo, a bonfire had been Photoshopped over the image of a woman who appeared to have been hanged.
Attenborough speaks of his shock on hearing that a close friend of BFT's founders was found hanged in his flat in 2010 "with a fake suicide-note".
