What is the meaning of 'Hung, Drawn and Quartered'?

Question

I know its execution but not sure of the gory details....

Answer 1

Well it has been well explained up to now but may I add you only have to watch Mel Gibsons "Braveheart" to see what is done,I am not sure if you see his character being dragged to his place of execution but it shows the hanging gutting and emasculation,a cruel punishment indeed.

Answer 2

I think that drawing had nothing to do with transporting.

One way of doing the thing (the ultimate punishment) was to hold the victim down while he was strangled to near death; then allow him to recover enough to know and to experience being cut "belly to chive" or the length from the breast bone to the pubic bone. The  "Common Hangman" would then reach in and DRAW out the intestines (sometimes burning them before the eyes of the victime) and then quartering the corpse and placing the four parts minus the head on jibits for all to behold.

It was thought that this was instructive to all who challenged authority.  It should be revived and used to rid us of child molesters.  If it were used publically on one or two, it is thought that incedents of molestation would rapidly deminish and a number of religious leaders could be flushed out of the system.  Only d**k Cheney has applied for the job of Common Hangman.  Soooo?

Answer 3

they used to hang them, stretch them and then tie each limb to a horse which they would make run in a different direction until the person was in 4 peices.

Answer 4

Hung, but not until death.

Arm and legs dislocated

Guts cut open.

It might take an hour.

It wouldnt be pleasant.

Theres several things that are worse. Don't go there !

Answer 5

I think they were hung but before they died they were drawn (ie their guts were ripped out) then quartered (cut into four pieces)

how gruesome  

Answer 6

It is what happened to our man William Wallace by the bloody english they slowly hanged him then stretched(drawn) him on the rack and just before he died the cut him in four, sending his parts to the four corners of the country

Answer 7

Well, actually it's a bit out of order.

But you would be dragged on a wooden frame to your place of execution.

Then they hung you, as it suggests.

Then they beheaded you and cut your into four bits to be displayed in different parts of the town or city.

Answer 8

I'm just here for the 2 points , don't mind me , lol....j/k

Basically it's an old term from the wild west days of America i believe .

Answer 9

Ooh its horrible....have you seen Braveheart..? well they hang the person beyond a minute of their life...then they attach horses to their feet or a rack to wind and 'draw' them..basically stretch them by pulling so that bones break and muscles tear...finally no matter if still conscious they then  cut the body open and remove the heart before chopping them into sections.. the head, legs,arms all disposed of in different locations across the country.. maybe superstition but there's no way they'll come back... Believe it or not it was actually a crowds good day out to watch in olden times..have your sandwiches and get a front row seat..! Barbaric eh but now its gone totally the other way.. shame their isn't a happy medium for today's society...  

Answer 10

Gory details coming up.......................

First - strung up by the neck until nearly (but not quite) dead - next - put on a table and eviscerated ( cut open and entrails cut out) - finally (if what went before was not enough) head and limbs chopped off.A medieval punishment.  

Answer 11

As this was important enough for you to ask a question about it, I hope you won't mind my correcting you on one small point. When referring to the method of execution, the correct form is to say "hanged" not hung. For example, a picture is hung on a wall but a villain is hanged by the neck.

Answer 12

First they hang you, till nearly dead, then they stretch you by your hands and feet, then they cut you up into four pieces, while still alive!

Oh for the days of yore!

Answer 13

Hung, is obvious, you're hung

Drawn is being towed along behind a horse (maybe by the same rope you've been hung with, not sure)

And quartered is basically , tie a rope to each limb, and then to 4 horses, who then run in opposite directions....nice.

Answer 14

Hung by the neck until not quite dead (This was the old method of slow strangulation rather than the 'long drop' that broke the victims neck), then drawn around the town (Dragged on a hurdle behind a horse), then sawn into four parts.

Answer 15

1.) hung by your neck

2.) "drawn" to the site to be quarted

3.) quartered: each arm and leg tied to a seperate horse and then the horses are hit and they run in different directions so your limbs are ripped off painfully.

sounds fun huh? =D

Answer 16

hanged until nearly dead, dragged (aka drawn) to the execution site by horse and the private parts set on fire whilst the man is still alive and he is decapitated. slow death

Answer 17

Its a very medieval punishment which was thankfully banded later as it was considered to vial.

Hung - the criminal would be hung by the neck until they were almost dead

Drawn - they would then be tied to a horse and dragged around the town as a deterrent for other people who mite also try to commit a crime

Quartered - they were then cut literally into 4 pieces and if they were still alive at after being quartered then they would just continue to cut them up until they were dead

not very nice really...

Answer 18

Dragged behing a horse, Hung, split open, head chopped off, cut into four

Answer 19

Until 1814, the full punishment for the crime of treason was to be hanged, drawn and quartered in that the condemned prisoner would be:

Dragged on a hurdle (a wooden frame) to the place of execution. (This is one possible meaning of drawn.)[2]

Hanged by the neck for a short time or until almost dead (hanged).

Disembowelled and emasculated and the genitalia and entrails burned before the condemned's eyes (this is another meaning of drawn—see the reference to the Oxford English Dictionary below).[3]

Beheaded and the body divided into four parts (quartered).