Mechanical Asphyxia

Question 1

Lynching

Answer 1

• Homicidal hanging
• Sometimes a person suspected to be involved in rape murder
  Overpowered by mob & hanged forcibly from a 🌴tree

Question 2

Accident chocking

Answer 2

Chocking from objects lodged in throat commonly seen in young elderly psychiatric patients, physically weakerones, where ability to swallow or masticate is impaired

Question 3

Burking

Answer 3

Method of homicidal smothering (closing external orifice) and traumatic asphyxia. William burke, willian hare killed 16 persons in Edinburgh during1927 sold bodies to dr. Robert for use as specimens in anatomy class

Question 4

Judicial hanging

Answer 4

Legal death sentence carried out by hanging the criminal
Due to sudden drop,fracture dislocation at level C2,3 or C3,4 bilateral fracture of lamina/pedicle(hangmans fracture)
Immediate unconsciousness, but heart beats respi movement occur for 10 min