if a person is hung drawn and quartered.what does the drawn and quartered mean?

Answer 1

Drawn - cut open and the intestines pulled out.
Quartered - arms and legs pulled off.

This was done commonly with the use of horses. The prisoner was tied arms and legs to four horses. His abdomen was sliced open and innards pulled out, after which the horses were whipped, and pulled the prisoner apart.

Answer 2

drawn I think means when ropes are tied to his arms and legs and then the person is stretched, either on a rack with wheels, or by people or horse and carts pulling on the ropes. The ropes are pulled until the joints are dislocated.

Then Quartered means to cut the body up. I think this torture originated in England (I may be wrong) and they would cut up the body in four pieces or something and then place the pieces of the body in the four corners of England? I read something about it like that. They may have also disembowled the body aswell which was to cut the body open while the person was still conscious and to rip out all the guts until they die.

Answer 3

Until 1814, the full punishment for the crime was to be hanged, drawn and quartered in that the convict would be:

1. Dragged on a hurdle (a wooden frame) to the place of execution. (This is one possible meaning of drawn.)
2. Hanged by the neck for a short time or until almost dead. (hanged).
3. Disembowelled and emasculated, and the genitalia and entrails burned before the condemned's eyes (This is another meaning of drawn. It is often used in cookbooks to denote the disembowelment of chicken or rabbit carcasses before cooking).[2]
4. Beheaded and the body divided into four parts (quartered).

Answer 4

Drawn and quartered means pulled in four different way either with horses or winches. They are drawn (pulled) and when the limbs are torn off, quartered.

Answer 5

[edit] Details of the punishment
Until 1814, the full punishment for the crime was to be hanged, drawn and quartered in that the convict would be:

Dragged on a hurdle (a wooden frame) to the place of execution. (This is one possible meaning of drawn.)
Hanged by the neck for a short time or until almost dead. (hanged).
Disembowelled and emasculated, and the genitalia and entrails burned before the condemned's eyes (This is another meaning of drawn. It is often used in cookbooks to denote the disembowelment of chicken or rabbit carcasses before cooking).[2]
Beheaded and the body divided into four parts (quartered).
Typically, the resulting five parts (i.e. the four quarters of the body and the head) were gibbeted (put on public display) in different parts of the city, town, or, in famous cases, country, to deter would-be traitors who hadn't seen the execution. Gibbeting was abolished in England in 1843. After 1814 the convict would be hanged until dead and the mutilation would be performed after death. Drawing and quartering was abolished in 1870.

There is confusion among modern historians about whether "drawing" referred to the dragging to the place of execution or the disembowelling, but since two different words are used in the official documents detailing the trial of William Wallace ("detrahatur" for drawing as a method of transport, and "devaletur" for disembowelment), there is no doubt that the subjects of the punishment were disembowelled.[3]

The condemned man would usually be sentenced to the short drop method of hanging, so that the neck would not break. The man was usually dragged alive to the quartering table, although in some cases men were brought to the table dead or unconscious. A splash of water was usually employed to wake the man up if unconscious, then he was laid down on the table. A large cut was made in the gut after removing the genitalia, and the intestines would be spooled out on a device that resembled a dough roller. Each piece of organ would be burnt before the sufferer's eyes, and when he was completely disembowelled, his head would be cut off. The body would then be cut into four pieces, and the king would decide where they were to be displayed. Usually the head was sent to the Tower of London and, as in the case of William Wallace, the other four pieces were sent to different parts of the country.

Judges delivering sentence at the Old Bailey also seemed to have had some confusion over the term "drawn", and some sentences are summarised as "Drawn, Hanged and Quartered". Nevertheless, the sentence was often recorded quite explicitly. For example, the record of the trial of Thomas Wallcot, John Rouse, William Hone and William Blake for offences against the king, on 12 July 1683 concludes as follows:

"Then Sentence was passed, as followeth, viz. That they should return to the place from whence they came, from thence be drawn to the Common place of Execution upon Hurdles, and there to be Hanged by the Necks, then cut down alive, their Privy-Members cut off, and Bowels taken out to be burnt before their Faces, their Heads to be severed from their Bodies, and their Bodies divided into four parts, to be disposed of as the King should think fit."[4]

Answer 6

Thanks for your question. Wiki defines drawn and quarter like the first answer.

From a 17th century diarist, Samuel Pepy he describes how Oliver Cromwell was dug up and ...
The body is tied between two horses and they drive the animals to pull in opposite directions until the body pops apart.

Anyhow, it was the punishment for treason for the men in England. Women were burned at the stake.

Answer 7

not sure the drawn bit , but quartered, is when horses are tethered to a persons hands and feet , then the horses are driven away from the victim, theoreticaly tearing into four pieces, or QUARTERS

Answer 8

Did you not watch Mel Gibson in Braveheart? At the end of the movie, you should rent it so you can see, he is drawn and quartered.

Answer 9

Shudder! Stretched on a rack, and then cut in pieces. Not a nice way to go, but it used to be popular in certain circles. Outlawed now of course. Except in parts of the Middle East.