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TRIAL AND EXECUTION
Catesby, the ringleader, was probably fortunate in being
shot while resisting arrest: the surviving conspirators were
most likely subjected to cruel torture in the weeks
leading up to their trial.
Whatever they suffered, the worst was yet to come.
Although all but one pleaded not guilty, the outcome was a
foregone conclusion. All the defendants were convicted and
sentenced to death. Guy Fawkes himself, with three companions,
was executed within sight of the House of Lords, in the barbarous medieval fashion reserved for traitors - hung, then disembowelled
whilst still alive.