Editing Gunpowder Plot (section)

===Executions===
[[File:The execution of Guy Fawkes' (Guy Fawkes) by Claes (Nicolaes) Jansz Visscher.jpg|thumb|340px|right|alt=A monochrome illustration of a busy urban scene. Medieval buildings surround an open space, in which several men are being dragged by horses. One man hangs from a scaffold. A corpse is being hacked into pieces. Another man is feeding a large cauldron with a dismembered leg. Thousands of people line the streets and look from windows. Children and dogs run freely. Soldiers keep them back.|Engraving of conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot being [[hanged, drawn and quartered]] in London.]]
Although Catesby and Percy escaped the executioner, their bodies were exhumed and decapitated, and their heads exhibited on spikes outside the House of Lords.<ref name="Fraserpp235236"/> On 30 January, Everard Digby, Robert Wintour, John Grant, and Thomas Bates were tied to hurdles—wooden panels<ref>{{Harvnb|Thompson|2008|p=102}}</ref>—and dragged through the crowded streets of London to [[St Paul's Churchyard]]. Digby, the first to mount the scaffold, asked the spectators for forgiveness, and refused a Protestant clergyman. He was stripped of his clothing, and wearing only a shirt, climbed the ladder to place his head through the noose. He was quickly cut down, and while still fully conscious was [[castrated]], [[Disembowelment#DisembowelmentEngland|disembowelled]], and then [[Dismemberment|quartered]], along with the three other prisoners.<ref>{{Harvnb|Haynes|2005|pp=115–116}}</ref> The following day, Thomas Wintour, Ambrose Rookwood, Robert Keyes, and Guy Fawkes were [[hanged, drawn and quartered]], opposite the building they had planned to blow up, in the [[Old Palace Yard]] at Westminster.<ref>{{Citation | last = Nicholls | first=Mark |chapter=Rookwood, Ambrose (c.&nbsp;1578–1606) |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24066 |format=subscription required |accessdate=16 November 2009 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/24066}}</ref> Keyes did not wait for the hangman's command and jumped from the gallows, but he survived the drop and was led to the quartering block. Although weakened by his torture, Fawkes managed to jump from the gallows and break his neck, avoiding the agony of the gruesome latter part of his execution.<ref>{{Harvnb|Northcote Parkinson|1976|pp=91–92}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Fraser|2005|pp=279–283}}</ref>

Steven Littleton was executed at [[Stafford]]. His cousin Humphrey, despite his co-operation, met his end at [[Red Hill, Worcester|Red Hill]] near Worcester.<ref>{{Harvnb|Haynes|2005|p=129}}</ref> Henry Garnet was executed on 3 May 1606.<ref>{{Harvnb|Northcote Parkinson|1976|pp=114–115}}</ref>