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The Official Table of Drops, issued by the British Home Office, is a manual which is used to calculate the appropriate length of rope for long drop hangings. Following a series of failed hangings, including those of John 'Babbacombe' Lee, a committee chaired by Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare was formed in 1886 to discover and report on the most effective manner of hanging. The committee's report was printed in 1888 and recommended a drop energy of {{convert|1260|ftlbf}}. In April 1892, the Home Office revised this based on an energy of {{convert|840|ftlbf}}. In practice, however, the hangmen ignored this table and awarded considerably longer drops, and a significantly revised edition of the Table of Drops was published in October 1913, allowing {{convert|1000|ftlbf}} of drop energy - and then in 1939, nine more inches ({{convert|9|in|cm|disp=output only}}) were added to the drop found by the 1913 Table.{{cn|date=January 2019}} The Table continued to be used in the United Kingdom until the country suspended capital punishment in 1965, and the UK abolished the death penalty altogether in 1998. The Table remains in use in former British colonies that have retained capital punishment by hanging, such as Singapore.[1]
Other published drop tables
References1. ^The process of judicial hanging {{webarchive |url=https://www.webcitation.org/60oeEquYX?url=http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hanging2.html |date=2011-08-09 }} 2. ^{{cite book |title=Procedure For Military Executions |date=December 1947 |publisher=Deprtment of the Army |page=9 |url=http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/procedure_dec-1947.pdf |accessdate=30 January 2019}} External links
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