<P> Although the Act of Parliament defining high treason remains on the United Kingdom 's statute books , during a long period of 19th - century legal reform the sentence of hanging , drawing , and quartering was changed to drawing , hanging until dead , and posthumous beheading and quartering , before being abolished in England in 1870 . The death penalty for treason was abolished in 1998 . </P>
<P> Although the Act of Parliament defining high treason remains on the United Kingdom 's statute books , during a long period of 19th - century legal reform the sentence of hanging , drawing , and quartering was changed to drawing , hanging until dead , and posthumous beheading and quartering , before being abolished in England in 1870 . The death penalty for treason was abolished in 1998 . </P>
when did england stop hanging drawing and quartering
when did england stop hanging drawing and quartering
in 1870
in 1870