Torture and executions did happen, but especially violent punishments, like drawing and quartering, were generally reserved for crimes like high treason.
The party with all this dancing and quartering was happening at a ramshackle house about three blocks from Shelli's apartment on the night she was killed.
Twice in one summer he came across the hills, and Os-Anders, it should be remembered, had no reindeer to look to, but lived by begging and quartering himself on other Lapps.