Guy Fawkes’ punishment was one of the most severe in English history – here’s what happens when a body is hung, drawn and quartered
Fawkes and his co-conspirators were sentenced to hanging, drawing and quartering. Crispijn van de Passe the Elder/ Wikimedia Commons
After their infamous plot to destroy parliament was foiled, Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators received one of the most severe judicial sentences in English history: hanging, drawing and quartering. According to the Treason Act 1351, this punishment involved:
That you be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, where you shall be hanged by the neck and being alive cut down...
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