Thomas More was executed in 1535 for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as the head of the Church of England and for not acknowledging the king’s marriage to Anne Boleyn. More was initially sentenced to be drawn, hanged, and quartered, but the king changed his method of execution to beheading.
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