Hyoid bone fractures occur 27% of the time in hangings,
That's from a wiki article. I've read up on executions by hanging in the past, and especially the brutal version of hangings where they wouldn't do the death drop, but haul a person up from the ground so they would strangle, and they did talk about the merciful next fractures in those case as the noose tightened.
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