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The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as depicted in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse. To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.
The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as pictured in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse. To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a penalty in England, Wales, Ireland and the United Kingdom for several crimes, but mainly for high treason. This method was abolished in 1870.
A slower method of applying single pieces of burning wood was used by Native Americans to torture their captives to death. [8] Molten metal. Marcus Licinius Crassus and Pavlo Pavliuk were supposedly killed this way. The execution method is associated with counterfeits (by pouring down the neck) or traitors (by pouring on the head). [9] Brazen ...
This was the last public execution in England to be held at the scene of the crime. [136] 13 August 1831: Dic Penderyn was hanged on the gallows at St. Mary's Street, Cardiff for allegedly participating in the Merthyr Rising. 21 March 1834: George Capel was hanged in Aylesbury for bestiality, the last known execution for bestiality in England ...
Artistic depiction of the execution by burning of three alleged witches in Baden, Switzerland in 1585. This is a list of people executed for witchcraft, many of whom were executed during organized witch-hunts, particularly during the 15th–18th centuries. Large numbers of people were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe between 1560 and 1630.
In England, statute 22 passed in 1532 by Henry VIII, made boiling a legal form of capital punishment. It began to be used for murderers who used poisons after the Bishop of Rochester's cook, Richard Rice , gave a number of people poisoned porridge , resulting in two deaths in February 1532. [ 5 ]
Execution wheel (German: Richtrad) with underlays, 18th century; on display at the Märkisches Museum, Berlin The breaking wheel, also known as the execution wheel, the Wheel of Catherine or the (Saint) Catherine('s) Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages up to the 19th century by breaking the bones of a criminal or ...
Smithfield was one of the most important locations for public executions in the medieval and modern City of London. The following people were among those executed there. The following people were among those executed there.