Cato Street conspirators, 1820
The Cato Street conspirators were impelled by anger at social and economic distress which was accompanying industrialisation and a number of heavy handed political activities; they planned to kill the Cabinet and the Prime Minister, overthrow the government and establish a radical political change along the lines of those of the French Revolution. Public revulsion at their beheading marked the last time this part of the sentence was carried out. Lord Haw-Haw and Sir Roger Casement were executed for treason but by hanging, and they not beheaded after death. Anne Boleyn was beheaded, but not after death.
