On 27 April/28 April Struensee and Brandt were condemned first to lose their right hands and then to be beheaded; their bodies were afterwards to be drawn and quartered. The "Kongelov" had no provisions for a mentally ill ruler who was unfit to govern. However, as a commoner who had imposed himself in the circles of nobility, Struensee was condemned as being guilty of "lèse majesté" and usurpation of the royal authority, both capital offences according to paragraphs 2 and 26 of the "Kongelov".