Which 1531 English Act, passed under Henry VIII, decreed that convicted poisoners were to be executed by being boiled alive?
Tudor justice had a flair for theatrical cruelty, and one particular Act took punishment to a whole new temperature. It was later repealed under Edward VI in 1547.
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