Capital Punishment (Ireland) Act 1821

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1821 c. 34,1 & 2 Geo. 4 c. 34
Year1821
Anno Regni GEORGII IV. Britanniarum RegisPrimo & Secundo. An Act to repeal so much of Two Acts, made in the Parliament ofIreland , in the Ninth Year of Queen Anne , and in the Seventeenth Year of King George the Second, as inflicts Capital Punishment on Persons guilty of stealing to the Amount of Five Shillings, out of or from Shops, Warehouses, and other Outbuildings and Places, and to provide more suitable and effectual Punishment for such Offences.

(1 & 2 Geo. 4) C A P. XXXIV.

[28th May 1821]

'WHEREAS by an Act made in the Parliament ofIreland in the Ninth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne , intituled An Act for taking away the Benefit of Clergy in certain Cases, and for taking away the Book in all Cases, and for repealing Part of the Statute for transporting Felons; it is among other Things enacted, that if any Person shall steal or feloniously take away any Goods of the Value of Five Shillings or more, out of any Shop, or out of any Stable or Coach-house or Booth, in any Fair or Market, and being indicted or appealed thereof, shall be thereupon found guilty by Verdict of Twelve Men, or shall confess the same on his, her or their Arraignment, or will not answer directly according to Law, or shall wilfully or of Malice stand mute, or shall peremptorily challenge above the Number of Twenty Jurors, or shall be outlawed on the same Indictment, and also all and every Person and Persons who shall be accessary before or after to any of the aforesaid respective Facts, they and every the aforesaid respective Criminals shall receive Judgment and suffer the Pains of Death, without any Allowance or Benefit of the Clergy or of the Act; any Law...

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