II. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that no crime
shall be henceforth punished by the deprivation of life or limb, (*
1) except those herein after ordained to be so punished.
SECT. III. (* 2) If a man do levy war (* 3) against the
Commonwealth _in the same_, or be adherent to the enemies of the
Commonwealth _within the same_, (* 4) giving to them aid or comfort
in the Commonwealth, or elsewhere, and thereof be convicted, of open
deed, by the evidence of two sufficient and lawful witnesses, or his
own voluntary confession, the said cases, and no (* 5) others, shall
be adjudged treasons which extend to the commonwealth, and the person
so convicted shall suffer death, by hanging, (* 6) and shall forfeit
his lands and goods to the commonwealth.
SECT. IV. If any person commit petty treason, or a husband
murder his wife, a parent (* 7) his child, or a child his parent, he
shall suffer death, by hanging, and his body be delivered to
Anatomists to be dissected.
SECT. V. Whosoever committeth murder by poisoning, shall suffer
death by poison.
SECT. VI. Whosoever committeth murder by way of duel, shall
suffer death by hanging; and if he were the challenger, his body,
after death, shall be gibbetted (* 8).
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