Drawn and Quartered

We say things and so often forget what they mean. If you were convicted of treason, which I'm assuming most Mormons would accuse me, the punishment in good old merry England at various times. (Drawn and quartered was part of the reason we ban cruel and unusual punishment here in the States.)

Until 1870, the full punishment for the crime was to be "hanged, drawn, and quartered" in that the convict would be:

Dragged on a hurdle (a wooden frame) to the place of execution. (drawn)
Hanged by the neck for a short time or until almost dead. (hanged).
Disembowelled, and the genitalia and entrails burned before the victim's eyes (often mistaken for drawing).[1]
Beheaded and the body divided into four parts (quartered).

Typically, the resulting five parts (i.e. the four quarters of the body and the head) were gibbeted (put on public display) in different parts of the city, town, or, in famous cases, country, to deter would-be traitors. Gibbeting was abolished in England in 1843.