>I wonder if he was hacked to pieces?
Maybe, after they cut open his gut while he was still alive, and poured hot coals in.
Hmmm - not like our 'civilized' European ancestors.
I had an English ancestor - a Knight, who was 'hung, drawn and quartered' (for his lands) - a common method of killing then.
That's how Wallace "Braveheart' died also.
It consisted of first hanging until almost dead, taken down while still conscience, slit open, guts piled on top and set afire - then cut into 4 pieces (quartered)...those that didn't get mounted on a spike at the city gates = the spike driven up through the nether region...and people were still being burned at the stake in England 400 years ago.
Yeah, the great civilized folk from the old world -
It's not a matter of ethnicity. Wherever man has been able to practice barbarity unfettered, it has been practiced.