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Who was the last person “Hung, Drawn, and Quartered†under British jurisdiction?
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Every year on Nov. 5 English speaking people are reminded of the punishment meted out to Guy Fawkes for his unsuccessful gunpowder plot. The penalty for treason at the time was to be hung, drawn, and quartered:
hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces).
Note that the drawing process was performed prior to death, and was the origin both for the 8th Amendment's prohibition against "cruel and unusual punishment" and the phrasing in American capital sentences "hung by the neck until dead" (my emphasis).
Fawkes avoided the worst part of the sentence by falling (or perhaps being pushed) off the gallows during his ascent. However his corpse was still beheaded and quartered, with the quarters distributed to the corners of the kingdom.
My question is: Do we know who the last person is who suffered the punishment of being "hung, drawn and quartered"?
I have seen claims that the punishment was performed by both sides in the American Revolution, so strictly speaking this question would only cover American Patriots so executed by the British. However as the punishment was only abolished a century later, these incidences are most likely not amongst the last performed.
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Every year on Nov. 5 English speaking people are reminded of the punishment meted out to Guy Fawkes for his unsuccessful gunpowder plot. The penalty for treason at the time was to be hung, drawn, and quartered:
hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces).
Note that the drawing process was performed prior to death, and was the origin both for the 8th Amendment's prohibition against "cruel and unusual punishment" and the phrasing in American capital sentences "hung by the neck until dead" (my emphasis).
Fawkes avoided the worst part of the sentence by falling (or perhaps being pushed) off the gallows during his ascent. However his corpse was still beheaded and quartered, with the quarters distributed to the corners of the kingdom.
My question is: Do we know who the last person is who suffered the punishment of being "hung, drawn and quartered"?
I have seen claims that the punishment was performed by both sides in the American Revolution, so strictly speaking this question would only cover American Patriots so executed by the British. However as the punishment was only abolished a century later, these incidences are most likely not amongst the last performed.
crime law-enforcement
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And you excluded this list and want to limit this for official punishments (not private entrertainment)?
– LangLangC
3 hours ago
@LangLangC: I didn't think to look for that list. Good find.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
@LangLangC: Let's put t this way - I'm not offering any bonuses for entertainment executions.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
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– Mark C. Wallace♦
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English speaking, yes, but those of us more inclined towards American tend not to notice. Two great nations separated by a common language...
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Every year on Nov. 5 English speaking people are reminded of the punishment meted out to Guy Fawkes for his unsuccessful gunpowder plot. The penalty for treason at the time was to be hung, drawn, and quartered:
hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces).
Note that the drawing process was performed prior to death, and was the origin both for the 8th Amendment's prohibition against "cruel and unusual punishment" and the phrasing in American capital sentences "hung by the neck until dead" (my emphasis).
Fawkes avoided the worst part of the sentence by falling (or perhaps being pushed) off the gallows during his ascent. However his corpse was still beheaded and quartered, with the quarters distributed to the corners of the kingdom.
My question is: Do we know who the last person is who suffered the punishment of being "hung, drawn and quartered"?
I have seen claims that the punishment was performed by both sides in the American Revolution, so strictly speaking this question would only cover American Patriots so executed by the British. However as the punishment was only abolished a century later, these incidences are most likely not amongst the last performed.
crime law-enforcement
edited 1 hour ago
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Pieter Geerkens
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Every year on Nov. 5 English speaking people are reminded of the punishment meted out to Guy Fawkes for his unsuccessful gunpowder plot. The penalty for treason at the time was to be hung, drawn, and quartered:
hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces).
Note that the drawing process was performed prior to death, and was the origin both for the 8th Amendment's prohibition against "cruel and unusual punishment" and the phrasing in American capital sentences "hung by the neck until dead" (my emphasis).
Fawkes avoided the worst part of the sentence by falling (or perhaps being pushed) off the gallows during his ascent. However his corpse was still beheaded and quartered, with the quarters distributed to the corners of the kingdom.
My question is: Do we know who the last person is who suffered the punishment of being "hung, drawn and quartered"?
I have seen claims that the punishment was performed by both sides in the American Revolution, so strictly speaking this question would only cover American Patriots so executed by the British. However as the punishment was only abolished a century later, these incidences are most likely not amongst the last performed.
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Pieter Geerkens
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And you excluded this list and want to limit this for official punishments (not private entrertainment)?
– LangLangC
3 hours ago
@LangLangC: I didn't think to look for that list. Good find.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
@LangLangC: Let's put t this way - I'm not offering any bonuses for entertainment executions.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
1
Please edit comments into question.
– Mark C. Wallace♦
2 hours ago
1
English speaking, yes, but those of us more inclined towards American tend not to notice. Two great nations separated by a common language...
– Jon Custer
45 mins ago
add a comment |Â
1
And you excluded this list and want to limit this for official punishments (not private entrertainment)?
– LangLangC
3 hours ago
@LangLangC: I didn't think to look for that list. Good find.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
@LangLangC: Let's put t this way - I'm not offering any bonuses for entertainment executions.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
1
Please edit comments into question.
– Mark C. Wallace♦
2 hours ago
1
English speaking, yes, but those of us more inclined towards American tend not to notice. Two great nations separated by a common language...
– Jon Custer
45 mins ago
1
1
And you excluded this list and want to limit this for official punishments (not private entrertainment)?
– LangLangC
3 hours ago
And you excluded this list and want to limit this for official punishments (not private entrertainment)?
– LangLangC
3 hours ago
@LangLangC: I didn't think to look for that list. Good find.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
@LangLangC: I didn't think to look for that list. Good find.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
@LangLangC: Let's put t this way - I'm not offering any bonuses for entertainment executions.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
@LangLangC: Let's put t this way - I'm not offering any bonuses for entertainment executions.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
1
1
Please edit comments into question.
– Mark C. Wallace♦
2 hours ago
Please edit comments into question.
– Mark C. Wallace♦
2 hours ago
1
1
English speaking, yes, but those of us more inclined towards American tend not to notice. Two great nations separated by a common language...
– Jon Custer
45 mins ago
English speaking, yes, but those of us more inclined towards American tend not to notice. Two great nations separated by a common language...
– Jon Custer
45 mins ago
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The punishment of being "Hanged, drawn, and quartered" (sensu stricto, it should always be 'hanged', rather than 'hung') was abolished in England by the Forfeiture Act 1870:
From and after the passing of this Act such portions of the Acts of the thirtieth year of George the Third, chapter forty-eight, and the fifty-fourth year of George the Third, chapter one hundred and forty-six, as enacts that the judgement required by law to be awarded against persons adjudged guilty of high treason shall include the drawing of the person on a hurdle to the place of execution, and, after execution, the severing of the head from the body, and the dividing of the body into four quarters, shall be and are hereby repealed
In fact, being 'drawn' in this context actually had nothing to do with the disembowelling of the traitor. It referred to the fact that he was fastened to a hurdle and drawn by horses to the place of execution.
Disembowelling the traitor had been abolished by the Treason Act, 1814, which replaced it with post-mortem decapitation. The preamble to the 1814 Act describes the punishment as it had existed up until that time:
Whereas in certain cases of high treason, as the law now stands, the sentence or judgement required by law to be pronounced or awarded against persons convicted or adjudged guilty of the said crime in such cases is that they should be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution and there be hanged by the neck, but not until they are dead, but that they should be taken down again, and that when they are yet alive their bowels should be taken out and burnt before their faces, and that afterwards their heads should be severed from their bodies, and their bodies be divided into four quarters, and their heads and quarters to be at the King’s disposal.
- (my emphasis)
In relation to the Gunpowder Plot, it is worth noting that even though Fawkes had jumped from the gallows and broken his neck, his body was still quartered and beheaded, thus ensuring that the full punishment was carried out. However, I can find no reports in contemporary accounts that his body was castrated or eviscerated.
I believe that the last people to suffer the punishment in England were Edward Despard and his six co-conspirators in the Despard Plot. They were drawn, hanged and beheaded at Horsemonger Lane Gaol in modern Southwark in 1803.
The person to be hanged, drawn, and quartered in Ireland was Robert Emmet, who was also executed in 1803 for his part in the Irish rebellion of that year.
However, if you are after the last person to suffer the full extremities of the punishment, that dubious honour falls to David Tyrie who was hanged, drawn quartered, and also disembowelled & castrated while still alive, in Winchester on 24 August 1782.
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The sentences of Despard and his accomplices were all commuted to "hanging and beheading".. I'm looking for the last instance where the full sentence was carried out, not merely issued.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
I think the expression is clear implication of chain of events, but "drawing" (behing horse on a wagon/cradle whatever) makes no sense in this. And it stands to reason that the methods were refined over time?
– LangLangC
3 hours ago
1
@LangLangC That is a common misconception
– sempaiscuba♦
3 hours ago
That is quite strange and would mean that the expression changed afterwards? I observe that the German translation takes specifically disembowelment and this description speak of "hanging, dissection" – Although I see this as quite senseless specifity of "tortured to death" and am under impression of "drawn" being reinterpreted
– LangLangC
2 hours ago
Urgs. Just relying on net-sources is so frustrating. The following site gives quite the interesting timeline. But was John Jones being guilty of picking a pocket & punished by death or is this all just unreliable and he acquitted?
– LangLangC
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The punishment of being "Hanged, drawn, and quartered" (sensu stricto, it should always be 'hanged', rather than 'hung') was abolished in England by the Forfeiture Act 1870:
From and after the passing of this Act such portions of the Acts of the thirtieth year of George the Third, chapter forty-eight, and the fifty-fourth year of George the Third, chapter one hundred and forty-six, as enacts that the judgement required by law to be awarded against persons adjudged guilty of high treason shall include the drawing of the person on a hurdle to the place of execution, and, after execution, the severing of the head from the body, and the dividing of the body into four quarters, shall be and are hereby repealed
In fact, being 'drawn' in this context actually had nothing to do with the disembowelling of the traitor. It referred to the fact that he was fastened to a hurdle and drawn by horses to the place of execution.
Disembowelling the traitor had been abolished by the Treason Act, 1814, which replaced it with post-mortem decapitation. The preamble to the 1814 Act describes the punishment as it had existed up until that time:
Whereas in certain cases of high treason, as the law now stands, the sentence or judgement required by law to be pronounced or awarded against persons convicted or adjudged guilty of the said crime in such cases is that they should be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution and there be hanged by the neck, but not until they are dead, but that they should be taken down again, and that when they are yet alive their bowels should be taken out and burnt before their faces, and that afterwards their heads should be severed from their bodies, and their bodies be divided into four quarters, and their heads and quarters to be at the King’s disposal.
- (my emphasis)
In relation to the Gunpowder Plot, it is worth noting that even though Fawkes had jumped from the gallows and broken his neck, his body was still quartered and beheaded, thus ensuring that the full punishment was carried out. However, I can find no reports in contemporary accounts that his body was castrated or eviscerated.
I believe that the last people to suffer the punishment in England were Edward Despard and his six co-conspirators in the Despard Plot. They were drawn, hanged and beheaded at Horsemonger Lane Gaol in modern Southwark in 1803.
The person to be hanged, drawn, and quartered in Ireland was Robert Emmet, who was also executed in 1803 for his part in the Irish rebellion of that year.
However, if you are after the last person to suffer the full extremities of the punishment, that dubious honour falls to David Tyrie who was hanged, drawn quartered, and also disembowelled & castrated while still alive, in Winchester on 24 August 1782.
answered 3 hours ago
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43.2k4152193
The sentences of Despard and his accomplices were all commuted to "hanging and beheading".. I'm looking for the last instance where the full sentence was carried out, not merely issued.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
I think the expression is clear implication of chain of events, but "drawing" (behing horse on a wagon/cradle whatever) makes no sense in this. And it stands to reason that the methods were refined over time?
– LangLangC
3 hours ago
1
@LangLangC That is a common misconception
– sempaiscuba♦
3 hours ago
That is quite strange and would mean that the expression changed afterwards? I observe that the German translation takes specifically disembowelment and this description speak of "hanging, dissection" – Although I see this as quite senseless specifity of "tortured to death" and am under impression of "drawn" being reinterpreted
– LangLangC
2 hours ago
Urgs. Just relying on net-sources is so frustrating. The following site gives quite the interesting timeline. But was John Jones being guilty of picking a pocket & punished by death or is this all just unreliable and he acquitted?
– LangLangC
2 hours ago
 |Â
show 1 more comment
up vote
2
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The punishment of being "Hanged, drawn, and quartered" (sensu stricto, it should always be 'hanged', rather than 'hung') was abolished in England by the Forfeiture Act 1870:
From and after the passing of this Act such portions of the Acts of the thirtieth year of George the Third, chapter forty-eight, and the fifty-fourth year of George the Third, chapter one hundred and forty-six, as enacts that the judgement required by law to be awarded against persons adjudged guilty of high treason shall include the drawing of the person on a hurdle to the place of execution, and, after execution, the severing of the head from the body, and the dividing of the body into four quarters, shall be and are hereby repealed
In fact, being 'drawn' in this context actually had nothing to do with the disembowelling of the traitor. It referred to the fact that he was fastened to a hurdle and drawn by horses to the place of execution.
Disembowelling the traitor had been abolished by the Treason Act, 1814, which replaced it with post-mortem decapitation. The preamble to the 1814 Act describes the punishment as it had existed up until that time:
Whereas in certain cases of high treason, as the law now stands, the sentence or judgement required by law to be pronounced or awarded against persons convicted or adjudged guilty of the said crime in such cases is that they should be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution and there be hanged by the neck, but not until they are dead, but that they should be taken down again, and that when they are yet alive their bowels should be taken out and burnt before their faces, and that afterwards their heads should be severed from their bodies, and their bodies be divided into four quarters, and their heads and quarters to be at the King’s disposal.
- (my emphasis)
In relation to the Gunpowder Plot, it is worth noting that even though Fawkes had jumped from the gallows and broken his neck, his body was still quartered and beheaded, thus ensuring that the full punishment was carried out. However, I can find no reports in contemporary accounts that his body was castrated or eviscerated.
I believe that the last people to suffer the punishment in England were Edward Despard and his six co-conspirators in the Despard Plot. They were drawn, hanged and beheaded at Horsemonger Lane Gaol in modern Southwark in 1803.
The person to be hanged, drawn, and quartered in Ireland was Robert Emmet, who was also executed in 1803 for his part in the Irish rebellion of that year.
However, if you are after the last person to suffer the full extremities of the punishment, that dubious honour falls to David Tyrie who was hanged, drawn quartered, and also disembowelled & castrated while still alive, in Winchester on 24 August 1782.
answered 3 hours ago
sempaiscuba♦
43.2k4152193
The sentences of Despard and his accomplices were all commuted to "hanging and beheading".. I'm looking for the last instance where the full sentence was carried out, not merely issued.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
I think the expression is clear implication of chain of events, but "drawing" (behing horse on a wagon/cradle whatever) makes no sense in this. And it stands to reason that the methods were refined over time?
– LangLangC
3 hours ago
1
@LangLangC That is a common misconception
– sempaiscuba♦
3 hours ago
That is quite strange and would mean that the expression changed afterwards? I observe that the German translation takes specifically disembowelment and this description speak of "hanging, dissection" – Although I see this as quite senseless specifity of "tortured to death" and am under impression of "drawn" being reinterpreted
– LangLangC
2 hours ago
Urgs. Just relying on net-sources is so frustrating. The following site gives quite the interesting timeline. But was John Jones being guilty of picking a pocket & punished by death or is this all just unreliable and he acquitted?
– LangLangC
2 hours ago
 |Â
show 1 more comment
up vote
2
down vote
up vote
2
down vote
The punishment of being "Hanged, drawn, and quartered" (sensu stricto, it should always be 'hanged', rather than 'hung') was abolished in England by the Forfeiture Act 1870:
From and after the passing of this Act such portions of the Acts of the thirtieth year of George the Third, chapter forty-eight, and the fifty-fourth year of George the Third, chapter one hundred and forty-six, as enacts that the judgement required by law to be awarded against persons adjudged guilty of high treason shall include the drawing of the person on a hurdle to the place of execution, and, after execution, the severing of the head from the body, and the dividing of the body into four quarters, shall be and are hereby repealed
In fact, being 'drawn' in this context actually had nothing to do with the disembowelling of the traitor. It referred to the fact that he was fastened to a hurdle and drawn by horses to the place of execution.
Disembowelling the traitor had been abolished by the Treason Act, 1814, which replaced it with post-mortem decapitation. The preamble to the 1814 Act describes the punishment as it had existed up until that time:
Whereas in certain cases of high treason, as the law now stands, the sentence or judgement required by law to be pronounced or awarded against persons convicted or adjudged guilty of the said crime in such cases is that they should be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution and there be hanged by the neck, but not until they are dead, but that they should be taken down again, and that when they are yet alive their bowels should be taken out and burnt before their faces, and that afterwards their heads should be severed from their bodies, and their bodies be divided into four quarters, and their heads and quarters to be at the King’s disposal.
- (my emphasis)
In relation to the Gunpowder Plot, it is worth noting that even though Fawkes had jumped from the gallows and broken his neck, his body was still quartered and beheaded, thus ensuring that the full punishment was carried out. However, I can find no reports in contemporary accounts that his body was castrated or eviscerated.
I believe that the last people to suffer the punishment in England were Edward Despard and his six co-conspirators in the Despard Plot. They were drawn, hanged and beheaded at Horsemonger Lane Gaol in modern Southwark in 1803.
The person to be hanged, drawn, and quartered in Ireland was Robert Emmet, who was also executed in 1803 for his part in the Irish rebellion of that year.
However, if you are after the last person to suffer the full extremities of the punishment, that dubious honour falls to David Tyrie who was hanged, drawn quartered, and also disembowelled & castrated while still alive, in Winchester on 24 August 1782.
answered 3 hours ago
sempaiscuba♦
43.2k4152193
The punishment of being "Hanged, drawn, and quartered" (sensu stricto, it should always be 'hanged', rather than 'hung') was abolished in England by the Forfeiture Act 1870:
From and after the passing of this Act such portions of the Acts of the thirtieth year of George the Third, chapter forty-eight, and the fifty-fourth year of George the Third, chapter one hundred and forty-six, as enacts that the judgement required by law to be awarded against persons adjudged guilty of high treason shall include the drawing of the person on a hurdle to the place of execution, and, after execution, the severing of the head from the body, and the dividing of the body into four quarters, shall be and are hereby repealed
In fact, being 'drawn' in this context actually had nothing to do with the disembowelling of the traitor. It referred to the fact that he was fastened to a hurdle and drawn by horses to the place of execution.
Disembowelling the traitor had been abolished by the Treason Act, 1814, which replaced it with post-mortem decapitation. The preamble to the 1814 Act describes the punishment as it had existed up until that time:
Whereas in certain cases of high treason, as the law now stands, the sentence or judgement required by law to be pronounced or awarded against persons convicted or adjudged guilty of the said crime in such cases is that they should be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution and there be hanged by the neck, but not until they are dead, but that they should be taken down again, and that when they are yet alive their bowels should be taken out and burnt before their faces, and that afterwards their heads should be severed from their bodies, and their bodies be divided into four quarters, and their heads and quarters to be at the King’s disposal.
- (my emphasis)
In relation to the Gunpowder Plot, it is worth noting that even though Fawkes had jumped from the gallows and broken his neck, his body was still quartered and beheaded, thus ensuring that the full punishment was carried out. However, I can find no reports in contemporary accounts that his body was castrated or eviscerated.
I believe that the last people to suffer the punishment in England were Edward Despard and his six co-conspirators in the Despard Plot. They were drawn, hanged and beheaded at Horsemonger Lane Gaol in modern Southwark in 1803.
The person to be hanged, drawn, and quartered in Ireland was Robert Emmet, who was also executed in 1803 for his part in the Irish rebellion of that year.
However, if you are after the last person to suffer the full extremities of the punishment, that dubious honour falls to David Tyrie who was hanged, drawn quartered, and also disembowelled & castrated while still alive, in Winchester on 24 August 1782.
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The sentences of Despard and his accomplices were all commuted to "hanging and beheading".. I'm looking for the last instance where the full sentence was carried out, not merely issued.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
I think the expression is clear implication of chain of events, but "drawing" (behing horse on a wagon/cradle whatever) makes no sense in this. And it stands to reason that the methods were refined over time?
– LangLangC
3 hours ago
1
@LangLangC That is a common misconception
– sempaiscuba♦
3 hours ago
That is quite strange and would mean that the expression changed afterwards? I observe that the German translation takes specifically disembowelment and this description speak of "hanging, dissection" – Although I see this as quite senseless specifity of "tortured to death" and am under impression of "drawn" being reinterpreted
– LangLangC
2 hours ago
Urgs. Just relying on net-sources is so frustrating. The following site gives quite the interesting timeline. But was John Jones being guilty of picking a pocket & punished by death or is this all just unreliable and he acquitted?
– LangLangC
2 hours ago
 |Â
show 1 more comment
The sentences of Despard and his accomplices were all commuted to "hanging and beheading".. I'm looking for the last instance where the full sentence was carried out, not merely issued.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
I think the expression is clear implication of chain of events, but "drawing" (behing horse on a wagon/cradle whatever) makes no sense in this. And it stands to reason that the methods were refined over time?
– LangLangC
3 hours ago
1
@LangLangC That is a common misconception
– sempaiscuba♦
3 hours ago
That is quite strange and would mean that the expression changed afterwards? I observe that the German translation takes specifically disembowelment and this description speak of "hanging, dissection" – Although I see this as quite senseless specifity of "tortured to death" and am under impression of "drawn" being reinterpreted
– LangLangC
2 hours ago
Urgs. Just relying on net-sources is so frustrating. The following site gives quite the interesting timeline. But was John Jones being guilty of picking a pocket & punished by death or is this all just unreliable and he acquitted?
– LangLangC
2 hours ago
The sentences of Despard and his accomplices were all commuted to "hanging and beheading".. I'm looking for the last instance where the full sentence was carried out, not merely issued.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
The sentences of Despard and his accomplices were all commuted to "hanging and beheading".. I'm looking for the last instance where the full sentence was carried out, not merely issued.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
I think the expression is clear implication of chain of events, but "drawing" (behing horse on a wagon/cradle whatever) makes no sense in this. And it stands to reason that the methods were refined over time?
– LangLangC
3 hours ago
I think the expression is clear implication of chain of events, but "drawing" (behing horse on a wagon/cradle whatever) makes no sense in this. And it stands to reason that the methods were refined over time?
– LangLangC
3 hours ago
1
1
@LangLangC That is a common misconception
– sempaiscuba♦
3 hours ago
@LangLangC That is a common misconception
– sempaiscuba♦
3 hours ago
That is quite strange and would mean that the expression changed afterwards? I observe that the German translation takes specifically disembowelment and this description speak of "hanging, dissection" – Although I see this as quite senseless specifity of "tortured to death" and am under impression of "drawn" being reinterpreted
– LangLangC
2 hours ago
That is quite strange and would mean that the expression changed afterwards? I observe that the German translation takes specifically disembowelment and this description speak of "hanging, dissection" – Although I see this as quite senseless specifity of "tortured to death" and am under impression of "drawn" being reinterpreted
– LangLangC
2 hours ago
Urgs. Just relying on net-sources is so frustrating. The following site gives quite the interesting timeline. But was John Jones being guilty of picking a pocket & punished by death or is this all just unreliable and he acquitted?
– LangLangC
2 hours ago
Urgs. Just relying on net-sources is so frustrating. The following site gives quite the interesting timeline. But was John Jones being guilty of picking a pocket & punished by death or is this all just unreliable and he acquitted?
– LangLangC
2 hours ago
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And you excluded this list and want to limit this for official punishments (not private entrertainment)?
– LangLangC
3 hours ago
@LangLangC: I didn't think to look for that list. Good find.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
@LangLangC: Let's put t this way - I'm not offering any bonuses for entertainment executions.
– Pieter Geerkens
3 hours ago
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Please edit comments into question.
– Mark C. Wallace♦
2 hours ago
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English speaking, yes, but those of us more inclined towards American tend not to notice. Two great nations separated by a common language...
– Jon Custer
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