Enslaved people sentenced under the act

The act prescribes public hanging and regulated the condemned person’s body

📅 7 Yüni 1796

Clause II prescribed public execution by hanging for death sentences and required the person to be kept free from intoxication from trial through execution. It left the body’s later disposition to the...

The state values condemned people as property and pays owners

📅 7 Yüni 1796

Clause VII required a court and jury to value a person sentenced to death, banishment, or chain labor at up to £100 according to trade or occupation, and authorized public payment of that amount to...