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Although the Act of Parliament defining high treason remains on the United Kingdom's statute books, during a long period of 19th-century legal reform the sentence of hanging, drawing, and quartering was changed to drawing, hanging until dead, and posthumous beheading and quartering, before being abolished in England in 1870.
Hanged, drawn and quartered in Wexford, Ireland as punishment for aiding the escape of James Eustace, 3rd Viscount Baltinglass and several Catholic priests from Ireland, and for refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy. [20] [21] 1 December 1581: Alexander Briant: Catholic priest, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales [22] 20 September 1586
Hanging, drawing and quartering was the usual punishment until the 19th century. Subsequent to the Judgement of Death Act 1823, it was the only crime other than murder for which a death sentence was mandatory. Since the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 became law, the maximum sentence for treason in the UK has been life imprisonment. [2]
Note that hanging, drawing and quartering was never the penalty for counterfeiting or clipping coins (which was high treason until 1832). [3] The penalty for this kind of high treason was the same as for petty treason , which for men was to be drawn to the place of execution and hanged, and for women was burning without being drawn.
Hanging was the method used for all but treason, which was punished by drawing, hanging and quartering for men, burning for women, and beheading for the nobility; and heresy, which was punished by burning. About 24% of those facing trial for such offences were actually executed.
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