Might I ask, what the hell? Guy Fawkes wasn’t burnt at the stake. He was tortured for days and then taken to be hang, drawn and quartered. As they took him up to the gallows, where they were going to hang him until near death, he jumped off and snapped his neck, killing him; this spared him the rest of what would have happened.

Oh, and by the way, James I was a tyrant, so it would have been a good thing had he gotten blown up; obviously not for the innocent people, though.

Another one of the plot tried this same thing, but the rope snapped, thus he experienced the drawing and quartering fully conscious. I forget his name.