Is hanging permissible in Islam?

The Shaykh : Glory be to Allah, this is clearly blind imitation. Recently, I was speaking with Abu 'Abdullah about these wicked murderers, about whom the newspapers wrote that they had been sentenced to death. They wrote an account of these people and what they did, stating that the court decided to hang four of them. They do not mention the Shari'ah at all; they do not mention anything other than the fact that these people violated the honor of humanity and do not know the value of humanity, or something to that effect. It is a statement that a disbeliever or a believer could say alike; it does not indicate whether the speaker is a Muslim or a disbeliever. The verse is not mentioned by them, yes.

The questioner : ...they wrote at the end...

The Shaykh : How? Who wrote it? We are talking about the judges who issue these rulings, who do not base them on the Shari'ah of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). Furthermore, killing by hanging is a method that is absolutely not prescribed in Islam, and it contradicts his (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: However, if one of the wicked murderers killed an innocent person in a specific manner, for example, he is killed in the same manner. I said recently that a man killed another by strangling, so he is strangled; another killed a person by crushing, the head with stones, as the Jew did in the time of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) with that slave girl, where he killed her by crushing her with stones, then he fled, but some people caught up with her. She still had a breath of life, so they asked her, and she said, "The Jew so-and-so; you must use the scale and the hook."