Connecticut General Court (1650)
Capital Laws Section of the Code, offenses and their punishments:
<1. If any man after legal conviction shall have or worship any other God but the Lord God, he shall be put to death. Deut. 13:6, 17:2; Ex. 22:20.
2. If any man or woman be a witch, that is, has or consults with a familiar spirit, they shall be put to death. Ex. 22:18; Lev. 20:27; Deut. 18:10, 11.
3. If any person shall blaspheme the Name of God the Father, Son or Holy Ghost with direct, express, presumptuous, or high-handed blasphemy, or shall curse in the like manner, he shall be put to death. Lev. 24:15, 16.
4. If any man or woman shall lie with any beast or brute creature, by carnal copulation, they shall surely be put to death, and the beast shall be slain and buried. Lev. 20:15, 16.
5. If any man lies with mankind as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed abomination, they both shall surely be put to death. Lev. 20:13.> 1650CC001
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Endnotes:
1650CC001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Code of the General Court of Connecticut, 1650, in the Capital Laws Section of the Code, which stated offenses and their punishments. The Code of 1650-Being a Compilation of the Earliest Laws and Orders of the General Court of Connecticut, etc., etc., (Hartford: Silus Andrus, 1822), complete work pages, pp. 20-94. The Annals of America, 20 vols. (Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1968, 1977), Vol. I, p. 200.