How the hanging lead to death EXPLAIN?
If you were lucky, it would snap your neck, and you would die quickly. If not, you would slowly suffocate. Bad way to go, either way.
By breaking of transverse process of atlas which hit the respiratory center in medulla
Sorry for wrong comment.... actually dens of axis get sepreted from body and it hits the respiratory center...
Many causes - compression of carotid arteries (hypoxia of brain),compression of jugular veins (congestion of brain),compression of trachea (asphyxia),breaking of cervical vertebrae, vagal inhibition..