Hung vs. Hanged

[Vishnya]

Hi,
I made test in English and faced the challenge. Can you explain something to me?

The sentence was:
Since the abolition of capital punishment in this country murderers are not hung if they are found guilty.

I should find any mistake in this sentence and I found it. The mistake was hung.

I correct the sentense and it became like that:
Since the abolition of capital punishment in this country murderers are not hang if they are found guilty.

But! the answer was like that:
Since the abolition of capital punishment in this country murderers are not hanged if they are found guilty.

I understand that my answer was incorrect but the verb to hang is an irregular verb, isn’t it? And it hasn’t such form as hanged.

[Mister_Micawber]

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Although many people now use ‘hung’ for capital punishment, some grammarians still like the distinction between the two verbs:

hang / hung / hung (for clothes in your closet, etc)
hang / hanged /hanged (for capital punishment, suicide, etc)
.

[Molly]

@Mister Micawber

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Although many people now use ‘hung’ for capital punishment, some grammarians still like the distinction between the two verbs:

hang / hung / hung (for clothes in your closet, etc)
hang / hanged /hanged (for capital punishment, suicide, etc)
.

And it’s always been “hung” for “hung, drawn and quartered”, hasn’t it?

Slightly off-topic, I found this and interesting use of “hung”:

the lunch was to be a Christmas dinner, even though it was the middle of May. The living room ceiling was hung with bunting, the kitchen smelt of roast turkey, the house was full of people who all knew each other intimately.

Ready to catch him should he fall. Bartlett, Neil. London: Serpent’s Tail, 1990

[Vishnya]

Thanks, I didn’t know the difference. =)