1. If any man or woman,
after legal conviction, shall have or worship any other God but the Lord God,
he shall be put to death (Deuteronomy 13.6. Exodus 22.20.)
2.If any person within this
colony shall blaspheme the name of God, the Father, Son, or Holy Ghost, with
direct, express, presumptuous, or highhanded blasphemy, or shall curse in the
like manner, he shall be put to death (Leviticus 24.15, 16.)
3.If any
man or woman be a witch, that is, has or consults with a familiar spirit, they
shall be put to death (Exodus 22.18. Leviticus 20.27. Deuteronomy 18.10, 11.)
4.If any
person shall commit any willful murder, committed upon malice, hatred, or
cruelty, not in a manÕs just and necessary defense, nor by casualty [accident]
against his will, he shall be put to death (Exodus 21.12, 13, 14. Numbers
35.30, 31.)
5.If any
person shall slay another through guile, either by poisoning or other such
devilish practices, he shall be put to death. (Exodus 21.12, 13, 14. Numbers
35.30, 31.)
10.If any
man steals a man or mankind and sells him, or if he be
found in
his hand, he shall be put to death. (Exodus 21.16.)
11.If any
person rise up by false witness wittingly and of purpose to take away a manÕs
life, he or she shall be put to death. (Deuteronomy 19.16, 18, 19.)
14.If any child or children above sixteen years old, and of
sufficient understanding, shall curse of smite their natural father or mother,
he or they shall be put to death, unless it can be sufficiently testified that
the parents have been very unchristianly negligent in the education of such
children, or so provoked them by extreme and cruel correction that they have
been forced thereunto to preserve themselves from death or maiming. (Exodus
21.17. Leviticus 20.9 Exodus 21.15.)
15.If any man have a stubborn or rebellious son, of
sufficient understanding and years, viz. Sixteen years of age, which will not
obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that when they
have chastened him, he will not harken unto them; then may his father or
mother, being his natural parents, lay hold on him, and bring him to the
magistrates assembled in court, and testify unto them that their son is
stubborn and rebellious, and will not obey their voice and chastisement, but
lives in sundry notorious crimes, such a son shall be put to death.
(Deuteronomy 21.20, 21.)
Source: George Brinley, ed., The Laws of Connecticut (Hartford, 1865), pp.9-10.