Oh it's probably still there on the Statute Book! No, actually, if Wiki is to be believed, hanging, drawing and quartering was the form of execution for high treason by 'common men' in English law from 1351 until 1870 - noblemen were beheaded, women were burnt at the stake (apparently that was more 'decent' - noble women might, if they were lucky, be beheaded, as were Anne Boleyn and Jane Grey) It was also so in Irish Law, though it seems not to have been formally included in Scottish Law, and I don't think any such execution ever happened in Scotland, though of course at least one famous Scot ended up that way in London. Death by hanging was still the sentence for High Treason until 1998, now it's life imprisonment.