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Thanks for that.
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the most recent occasion (and ultimately, the last) on which anyone had been sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered was in November 1839, following the Chartist Newport Rising
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The last person to be
sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered was a Chartist.
I don't find the history of this barbarism shocking, but I do find it shocking that a man fighting for worker's rights was sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered. What short memories we have.