Download or read book Hanged, Drawn and Quartered written by Frederic P. Miller and published by . This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be hanged, drawn and quartered was the penalty for high treason in medieval England, and remained on the statute book but seldom used in the United Kingdom of Great Britain[citation needed] and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until abolished under the Treason Act 1814. It was reserved only for this most serious crime, which was deemed more heinous than murder and other capital offences. It was applied only to male criminals, except on the Isle of Man. Women found guilty of treason were sentenced to be taken to a place of execution and burned at the stake, a punishment changed to hanging by the Treason Act 1790 in Great Britain, and 1796 in Ireland.