His body shall not remain overnight on the tree; rather you shall bury him on that same day, for a hanging person is a curse of God, and you shall not defile your land that Hashem your God is giving you as an inheritance.
English: How do they hang him? They sink a post into the ground with a beam projecting from it; they place his two hands one over the other and hang him. One ties and one unties, in order to fulfill the mitzvah of hanging.
On the daf / in context: The Mishnah describes a deliberately brief hanging performed only long enough to fulfill the mitzvah, after which the body is immediately taken down.
Type of Learning
Halakhic description of the procedure of hanging (Mishnah).
What Is Learned
The hanging is performed only momentarily: one person ties while another immediately unties, so that the mitzvah is fulfilled without prolonged exposure of the body.