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Catherine Hayes was burned alive at Tyburn in London in 1726. She had murdered her husband — or rather, organised it. She hired two men to get him drunk and beat him to death with a cleaver. They then dismembered the body and threw the head into the Thames to prevent identification. It washed up anyway. The head was mounted on a pole for weeks while authorities waited for someone to recognise it. Someone did. Catherine was convicted of petty treason — the crime of a wife killing her husband. The