"Hung" is what you do to a side of beef. TFA said it right; criminals were hanged.
"You will be taken from this place to another place, and thence to a place of execution, where you will be hanged by the neck until dead."
The penalty for common traitors was to be hanged, drawn and quartered. The hanging was not until death; after dangling for a while, you were cut down and your limbs were attached to horses, which were then driven apart, causing all of your joints to be dislocated. You were then cut into four pieces, which were carried to the corners of the realm, and displayed as a warning to others not to engage in treason.
High-born traitors had it easy; they had the privilege of being beheaded instead. If they were lucky, they got a skilled executioner, who could strike off their head with a single blow. Lady Jane Grey was not lucky.
I mean, one is already dead after hanging; everything else is just some extra burden on state finances. Your body will become dust anyway, quartered or not quartered.
Being hanged didn't make you dead. Not reliably. It's kind of a science; what happens when you drop depends on your weight, and the length of the drop. If you're too heavy, or the drop is too long, then your head gets yanked off, which is generally considered a bad result. On the other hand, if you're light or the drop is too short, you get slowly strangled, which is also an undesirable outcome.
So sometimes hangees would pay people to swing from their ankles after the drop, until they were really dead.
For hanging, drawing and quartering, you weren't supposed to die from the hanging bit.
[Edit] The quartering part wasn't some kind of superfluous state expense; it was the whole point of the exercise. HDQ was only performed rarely - it was reserved for the (commoner) leaders of rebellions against the monarch. Common criminals were just hanged.
"You will be taken from this place to another place, and thence to a place of execution, where you will be hanged by the neck until dead."
The penalty for common traitors was to be hanged, drawn and quartered. The hanging was not until death; after dangling for a while, you were cut down and your limbs were attached to horses, which were then driven apart, causing all of your joints to be dislocated. You were then cut into four pieces, which were carried to the corners of the realm, and displayed as a warning to others not to engage in treason.
High-born traitors had it easy; they had the privilege of being beheaded instead. If they were lucky, they got a skilled executioner, who could strike off their head with a single blow. Lady Jane Grey was not lucky.