An e-mail correspondent wondered about this passage from a magazine article: “The majority of the people had not died from natural causes. Most had been hung - the ropes were around their necks - hit over the head or stabbed.” As a past tense for the word meaning to put to death by hanging, “hung” is accepted by some dictionaries as one alternative. Most modern authorities, though, still argue that pictures are hung and people are hanged.
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