...pronouncing its sentence, which is that you be taken hence to the gaol whence you came, and thence to the place of execution, where you are to be hanged by the neck until you are dead." Among the Askin Papers in the Detroit Public Library is preserved a tragically...

...twenty-eight years later. In 1802, King George III approved the following death sentence for the Irish rebels: You are to be hanged by the neck, but not until you are dead; for while you are still living your bodies are to be taken down, your bowels torn out and burned...

...following, viz. " That you be taken hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the ufual place of execution where you are to be hanged by the neck until yoti arc de^d." For the executing of this fame man, the following is fent by the recorder : London...