Emma Dreher

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he'll be drawn on a hurdle to be half hanged, and then he'll be taken down and sliced before his own face, and then his inside will be taken out and burnt while he looks on, and then his head will be chopped off, and he'll be cut into quarters. That's the sentence."
Emma Dreher
I forgot they did this during Victorian times (thank you Brittany Broski) ! A punishment called "quartering" , usually reserved for treason, would require the victim to be hung, disemboweled, and cut into "quarters" or 4 pieces. Quite brutal
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