Breaking your neck is obviously never ideal. Except in the case of Guy Fawkes.
Guy Fawkes, along with 12 other English Catholics, was part of the famed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a plan to kill King James I by blowing up the House of Lords. Fawkes was put in charge of guarding the gunpowder being stockpiled in a cellar underneath the House of Lords.
On Nov. 5, 1605, authorities received an anonymous letter tipping them off about the plot. They searched the premises until they eventually found Fawkes guarding the 36 barrels of explosives.
Fawkes was questioned and tortured until he eventually confessed. He was tried, convicted, and consequently sentenced to execution.
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