@Forest2TS  
I still don’t get it. Is she hanging you because of you because you’re blaming her for your broken bones?

@Cirrus Light  
As in, blaming her for my broken phones.

@Forest2TS  
Lolwut

WTF! TWILIGHT! Is it because of me, for f*ck’s sake?

@Cirrus Light  
You’ve given this a bit more thought than I have. I was just referencing one of the Horrible Histories audiobooks. At least, I’m pretty sure that’s where that quote comes from; it’s been years since I listened to them.

“B-but the offense was shoplifting!”
 
…Actually, ancient England was kind of like this before they came up with the idea of dedicated prisons people could spend months or years in. Though at least most of the time juries simply acquitted the person since common sense dictates this is not an appropriate offense to kill someone for, but the juries weren’t always so reasonable…
 
If you ever want to lose faith in humanity, especially in humanity’s progress, look at how societies deal with criminals, and what modern majority viewpoints are…
 
@Gizogin  
Okay, here’s a fun mind-game: when a person is hanged (assuming their neck isn’t broken), they pass out within a minute or a few, but don’t die for about 30. The level of hypoxia (lack of oxygen to the brain) to make someone pass out is at a certain amount, but brain damage doesn’t occur unless you maintain that amount for longer than it takes to make them pass out. So, they pass out, and only later is their brain damaged and then destroyed while they’re unconscious.
 
So, oddly enough, if you hang someone until they pass out and then cut them down and resuscitate them, they get the exact same experience as if they were hanged until dead, except they don’t actually die.
 
So, if the sentence is meant to punish them, to inflict on them the experience of pain of death, then couldn’t you cut them down after they’ve passed out, resuscitate them, and say they’d carried out their sentence? Because by that point they’ve had the entire experience. Being unconscious, they wouldn’t experience the dying part either way (except they wouldn’t experience afterlife, obviously, if you believe in that, but that wouldn’t happen until after the sentence is carried out, anyways).
 
I mean, obviously, actually dying is kind of a big part of it, but I just thought that was an interesting thought experiment to explore.
 
And if the law (Twilight) is only seeking to mete out the punishment of causing you that pain, then, yes, actually, it makes perfect sense for her to only hang you until you’re unconscious instead of to death, since the experience is the same (well, physically. Mentally it’s going to be totally different if you know you’re going to live).

Couldn’t you just hang me by the neck until I get a bit sick?

hanged*

@Ferrotter  
Technically they wouldn’t die instantly; they’d just lose all motor control and sensation of their body. See: information-theoretic death. You’re not really dead until the brain has received sufficient damage; in this case, it would be from lack of blood flow, and would take a few minutes, though only about 15 seconds for unconsciousness.
 
And horse necks are very strong…

That’s my princess

@JP  
I’m pretty sure becoming an alicorn princess entitles you to claim high justice.

“It’s a fair cop.”

Technically it’s “hanged by the neck.” The past tense of hang when it applies to executions is hanged.
 
It also saves a lot of embarrassment at the hanging when the prisoner’s neck cleanly snaps and he dies instantly, and some filly in the audience remarks how the fellow was so well hung.

did anyone read it in Twilight’s voice?

@JP  
No, she place a sentence of life in the dungeon, she just doesn’t have one yet.

ever since the brony wreck, the poniacs have taken over.

“The item shall be cut in two and both parties will receive…death! I’ll keep the item.”

Silly Twilight, only Celestia and Luna have the power to sentence anyone to death. Only sentences you can give are hug sentences for grumpy ponies.