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To: Ilaine who wrote (38039)	5/11/1999 4:08:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Waste of good rope.

To: Ilaine who wrote (38039)	5/11/1999 9:20:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

The really official way to "hang, draw, and quarter" (for high treason) is to hang first and cut down still living. Then draw (disembowel) -- the really elegant executions have the bowels are burnt before the victim's face. The flaying was not, I believe, English practice, but I will check with Holinshed. After quartering, the quarters were disposed of at his majesty's pleasure. The last such English treason trial was about 1762. Our founders thought it cruel and unusual and banned it from the U.S. That's what they would have done to Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin and the others had the English won the war outright and captured them. Don't think it was abolished in England until about 1832. Does anyone know if this barbaric punishment was ever applied in the English colonies in America?