And they’d do that for petty crimes like highway robbery. Read the Newgate Calender.

Highwaymen would have been hanged, but highway robbery is not in itself a treasonous act so where do you see that such criminals were hanged, drawn, and quartered?

This was before the long drop method of hanging, which results in a broken neck and quick death, was used. It was strangulation by their own body weight.

In that order? Beheaded is way too far down in the list.

The way the Wikipedia page reads, it seems like they were drawn first the hanged. 😬

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It was meant to be torturous. It was a traitor's death, after all.

None of the previous actions would result in immediate death, so they'd be awake and screaming the whole time, as the watching crowd bayed for their blood.

After being quartered they would often send the body parts to different locations for viewing to remind others what can happen when you fuck around.

Aren’t people great! /s

The /s surely isn’t necessary here?

for an example, go watch the ending to William Wallace.

This is Reddit. The /s is always needed.

If you read further, it mentions drawing may have referred to drawing out the bowels.

Oh good catch.

Almost sounds like an hash browns order at Waffle House.

IYKYK.

Like, I literally cited my source LOL

The Austrian method, as it became know. Still used as late as WWI.

Pretty sure that was 5 or 6 pieces even though it was called quartering. Easy enough to cut off the arms and legs, head is a bit more work. It is a lot of work to cut a body into 4 even moderately symmetrical pieces.

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