St. Edmund Campion was executed by the government of Queen Elizabeth I in London in 1581. After refusing to recant his Roman Catholic faith under severe torture, his captors invented charges that he had conspired to overthrow the queen. He was convicted of treason and executed by hanging and drawing and quartering.
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