Hanging, eviscerating and quartering
Hanged, drawn and quartered ( Engl. Hanged, drawn and quartered ) was one in England imposed of execution for high treason or counterfeiting . It was imposed by the Assisen , a court established by the Crown for capital crimes . At the beginning of the 18th century the punishment was no longer applied and was replaced by the traditional and more humane hanging. The punishment only existed on paper. It was deleted in 1870. The death penalty for high treason was abolished in 1998.
The type of execution was first used during the reign of King Henry III of England . practiced. The Welsh prince Dafydd ap Gruffydd was the first high noblewoman to be executed in 1283 under King Edward I ("Longshanks") by hanging, eviscerating and quartering. In 1305 the Scottish national hero William Wallace suffered the same fate. In 1605, the Guy Fawkes co-conspirators who were involved in the gunpowder conspiracy were sentenced to this type of death. Fawkes himself shortened his death as he managed to jump from the gallows pedestal, breaking his neck.
The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales died because of their refusal, according to the will of Henry VIII. The supremacy store, in this way. The former Lord Chancellor Thomas More should also be executed so that the judgment was, however, to the effect mitigated by the king that Morus 1535 was beheaded.
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The place of execution was often the place of origin of the convicted person, not the place of his arrest or the seat of the court. The convict was dragged to the place of execution on a gate ( drawing ) . He was hanged by the neck and before he could die again taken down ( hanged ) . He was then eviscerated alive : the genitals were cut off, his intestines removed from the body (some sources see this as an ancient meaning of drawn ) and shown to the crowd. The heart was cut out and burned together with the entrails in front of the eyes of all spectators (sources report that convicts were still alive, which is anatomically impossible). Then the condemned was decapitated , the torso was chopped into four parts or sawed ( quartered ) . The body parts were placed on five stakes in his hometown as a deterrent and put on public display. This public display was abolished in 1843.
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- ↑ What are the laws on treason? In: BBC News . March 11, 2008. Retrieved July 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Antonia Fraser: The Gunpowder Plot , Phoenix (2005) [1996], ISBN 0-7538-1401-3 , p. 283 (English)
- ↑ a b Cecil Adams: What do "drawn and quartered" and "keelhauling" mean? In: A Straight Dope Classic from Cecil's Storehouse of Human Knowledge. August 4, 1995, accessed July 25, 2017 .