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Because I'm that guy: "hanged"
(disclaimer: language is a fluid construct, talk however you want, there's no one "right" way to speak, some of us just enjoy being pedantic assholes)
Because I'm also that guy: both are correct.
It's true that you should only used hanged to refer to hanging a person, but it's not incorrect to use hung in that case.
Source 1: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/hung-or-hanged
Source 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cdExsAQuCQA
Depends if you mean 'he suspended himself from a rope' or 'he comitted suicide'
Maybe we should not care how 18th century cowboys pronounced things
I don't, I care about the language as it exists today.