Where was Guy Fawkes executed?

Guy Fawkes was executed in Old Palace Yard, Westminster, after the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Fawkes was captured shortly after midnight on 5 November 1605 while guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder beneath the House of Lords. He initially gave the alias John Johnson, but torture and interrogation eventually forced him to reveal his identity and connections to the conspiracy.

Fawkes and three other surviving plotters—Thomas Wintour, Ambrose Rookwood and Robert Keyes—were executed on 31 January 1606. The scaffold stood in Old Palace Yard, directly opposite the building the conspirators had intended to destroy. Their sentence was the exceptionally brutal punishment of hanging, drawing and quartering for high treason.

The other four condemned plotters had been executed there the previous day. Fawkes avoided the full ritual by jumping from the gallows and breaking his neck, although his body was still quartered. Smithfield, Tyburn and Tower Hill were also famous execution sites, but none is the correct location for Fawkes's execution.