Treason Act 1790
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1790 c. 48 |
| Year | 1790 |
(30 Geo. 3) C A P. XLVIII.
'WHEREAS it is expedient that the Judgment which has been required by Lawto be given and awarded against any Woman or Women in the Cases of High Treason, or of Petit Treason, should be no longer continued:' Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliamentassembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the fifth Day ofJune one thousand seven hundred and ninety, the Judgment to be given and awarded against any Woman or Women convicted of the Crime of High Treason, or of the Crime of Petit Treason, or of abetting, procuring, or counselling any Petit Treason, shall not be, that such Woman or Women shall be severally drawn to the Place of Execution, and be there burned to death; but that such Woman or Women, being so convicted as aforesaid, shall be severally drawn to the Place of Execution, and be there hanged by the Neck until she or they be severally dead; any Law or Usage to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
II Women convicted of Petit Treason, &c. to be liable to the same Punishment as Persons convicted of wilful Murder, as specified in Act 25 Geo. II. Cap. 37.
II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Woman or Women shall be convicted of the Crime of Petit Treason, or of abetting, procuring, or counselling any Petit Treason, then and in every such Case, such Woman or Women shall be subject and liable to such further Pains and Penalties as are particularly specified and declared with respect to Persons convicted of wilful Murder, in an Act passed in the twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of KingGeorge the Second (intituled, An Act for better preventing the horrid Crime of Murder ); and the Court before whom any such Woman or Women shall be convicted, shall pass Sentence at such Time, and shall give such Orders with respect to the Time of Execution, the Disposal of the Convict's Body after Execution, and all such other Matters and Things as are directed to be given by the said Act, with...
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