How was Thomas More sentenced after being found guilty of treason?

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Portrait of Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger, showing More in dark robes and a black hat, wearing a gold chain of office, seated against a green and yellow draped background. — Thomas More *Sir Thomas More*, oil on panel by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1527; in the Frick Collection, New York City.

After being found guilty of treason, Thomas More was initially sentenced to the traditional traitor's death, which involved being drawn, hanged, and quartered. However, King Henry VIII subsequently commuted this sentence to beheading.12