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How Guy Fawkes, Figurehead of the Gunpowder Plot, Avoided the Full Horrors of Execution by Hanging, Drawing and Quartering
The Catholic conspirator jumped or fell from the gallows on this day in 1606, breaking his neck before the executioner could ...
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The Co-Conspirators
Powell was tried and convicted, and was executed by hanging in July 1865. Surratt owned a boarding house in Washington where the conspirators met. The subject of some controversy, she received the ...