And by whom? I was watching the Helen Mirren version of Elizabeth 1st last night - it featured beheadings for traitors, burning at the stake for heretics, being hung, drawn and quartered, hands being cut off.... Nasty stuff, that must at some point have all been replaced by hanging... I know the French got the guillotine just befoe the end of the 18th Century...
2007-01-25 23:01:30 · 2 answers · asked by Alyosha 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Hanging, Drawing and Quartering originated in the 1200s, usually for males accused of treason (women were burned at the stake). The most famous two people put to death this way were probably William Wallace ("Braveheart") and Guy Fawkes. Its use was at its height in the 1600s during the reign of Charles I and II. The last time the sentance was actually carried out was in 1782. Cases more recent than this (in 1820 and 1848) were usually commuted in some fashion and the drawing and quartering omitted. It was still on the statute books as late as 1870 when it was abolished, along with beheading. Burning at the stake was abolished in 1790, and public gibbeting in 1843.
Most ordinary criminals have always been hanged. Beheadings, boiling alive and other methods of death were always reserved for extra-special cases, usually treason and offences against the state. The death penalty remained in force in the UK for treason until 1998 after the Human Rights Act came into force.
Beheadings were common in most of Europe until well into the 20th century. The last use of the guillotine in France before its abolition in 1981 was in 1977. Beheading by sword is still practiced today in Saudi Arabia, and the sentence remains on the statute books in many other Islamic countries.
2007-01-25 23:28:02 · answer #1 · answered by Mental Mickey 6 · 26⤊ 2⤋
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And by whom? I was watching the Helen Mirren version of Elizabeth 1st last night - it featured beheadings for traitors, burning at the stake for heretics, being hung, drawn and quartered, hands being cut off.... Nasty stuff, that must at some point have all been replaced by hanging... I know the...
2015-08-24 04:15:33 · answer #2 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On April 9, 1747, Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, became the last man to be beheaded in England when he was executed on Tower Hill for his part in the Highland rising of 1745.
1612: The last person in England to be burnt at the stake for heresy was Edward Wightman at Lichfield
1684: Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles and Susanna Edwards become the last people to be hanged for witchcraft in Britain.
1789: Catherine Murphy is the last woman to be burned to death (legally) in England. The penalty is abolished the next year.
1746: The execution for treason of nine Catholic members of the Manchester Regiment, Jacobites, who were hanged, drawn and quartered on Wednesday July 30th 1746 at Kennington Common
1964: On 13 August at 8 a.m. Peter Anthony Allen, at Walton Prison in Liverpool, and Gwynne Owen Evans, at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, are both executed for the murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in Britain
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2007-01-25 23:32:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 0⤋
Although the previous answers are correct, it is not widely known that in the British sectors of of Post WW2 Germany, the British military governments used a German version of the guillotine to execute prisoners that had been sentenced to death,
2007-01-26 01:38:45 · answer #4 · answered by Hendo 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
A friend of mine is descended from one of the ladies executed at Pendle Hill for witchcraft; when she retired, her sixth formers gave her a broomstick as a present to save on petrol costs.
2007-01-26 03:01:43 · answer #5 · answered by Vivienne T 5 · 5⤊ 3⤋