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Registered: 11-04-09
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If you tie a rope from a horse to someone's limbs, will they be able to pull a human apart?
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In France one would execute people for regicide that way...

Wikipedia - French Quartering
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I read one historical account of this, and the executioners had to "assist" with knives as the horses couldn't pull the condemned apart....

However, this has nothing to do with being "drawn and quartered". Watch Mel Gibson's William Wallace film to see a graphic depiction of the old English punishment.
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