text: Depends on if the neck breaks or not.  The idea is to get the  neck to snap, that's why gallows have a trap door.   \nThe fall through the trap door is supposed to break the neck when the rope stops the fall.  If that doesn't work, then it takes a while to die slowly of strangulation, maybe a minute, maybe longer.  I don't know, never tried it, never watched, don't ever want to see it.