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====Fate of a Scottish regicide====
[[Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl]] was a Scottish nobleman complicit in the murder of King [[James I of Scotland]]. On 26 March 1437 a red hot iron crown was placed upon his head, was cut in pieces alive, his heart was taken out, and his body was thrown into a fire. A papal [[nuncio]], the later Pope [[Pius II]] witnessed the execution of Stewart and his associate [[Sir Robert Graham]], and, reportedly, said he was at a loss to determine whether the crime committed by the regicides, or the punishment of them was the greater.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VoJnKgmUH54C|title=Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c.|chapter=Scotland|volume=20|year=1816|location=Edinburgh|publisher=John Brown, Anchor Close|page=131}}</ref>