THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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A slap on the wrist
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Hanged
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Quartered
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Disemboweled
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Most of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hanging, drawing and quartering was the usual punishment until the 19th century. The last treason trial was that of William Joyce, “Lord Haw-Haw", who was executed by hanging in 1946. Since the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 became law, the maximum sentence for treason in the UK has been life imprisonment.
Detailed explanation-2: -High Treason against the reigning sovereign. Until 1814 the particular heinousness of the crime could mean the convicted traitor suffered hanging, drawing, and quartering. Remained a capital offence until the bringing into force of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 c 37 s 36, when replaced by life imprisonment.
Detailed explanation-3: -Illustratively, in 1776, the New York Constitutional Convention passed a resolution subjecting loyalists to the death penalty for treason.
Detailed explanation-4: -Both demanded exemplary punishment and drawing, hanging, emasculation, disembowelling, beheading, and quartering were employed in various combinations. In rare and aggravated cases flaying alive seems to have been included.