by defining treason and providing for the punishment of treason, and other kindred offences." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That section two hundred and two of article thirty ...

No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open Court. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of ...

Burning was the punishment for women’s high treason and men were hanged, drawn and quartered. Beheading was generally accepted for the upper classes. One could be burned for marrying a Jew.