What were the medieval punishments for adultery?

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hanging,drawing and quartering

The victim was first hanged until nearly unconscious but not dead, then cut down from the gibbet and disembowelled - the organs were usually burnt in front of him. Finally, he was beheaded and his body hacked into four (quartering).

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