Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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hanged, drawn, and quartered
Hist. An ancient sentence for high treason, consisting of the prisoner's being drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, hanged by the neck (but not until dead), disemboweled, and beheaded, and the body then divided into four pieces for the king's disposal. ( The sentence was abolished in England in 1870. See TREASON.