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Senator (and future Chief Justice) Oliver Ellsworth was the drafter of the Crimes Act. The Crimes Act of 1790 (or the Federal Criminal Code of 1790), [1] formally titled An Act for the Punishment of Certain Crimes Against the United States, defined some of the first federal crimes in the United States and expanded on the criminal procedure provisions of the Judiciary Act of 1789. [2]
April 30, 1790: Punishment of Crimes. An Act for the punishment of certain Crimes against the United States. (Crimes Act of 1790) Sess. 2, ch. 9 1 Stat. 112 (chapter 9) 10: April 30, 1790: Regulating the Army of the United States. An Act for regulating the Military Establishment of the United States. Sess. 2, ch. 10 1 Stat. 119: 11: May 26, 1790
The Crimes Act of 1790 defined some capital offenses: treason, murder, robbery, piracy, mutiny, hostility against the United States, counterfeiting, and aiding the escape of a capital prisoner. [8] The first federal execution was that of Thomas Bird on June 25, 1790, for committing "murder on the high seas", after he murdered his captain while ...
The Crimes Act of 1825 was "drawn along the same lines" as the Crimes Act of 1790, but "more comprehensive.” [3] Justice Joseph Story was an advocate for expanded federal jurisdiction, and in particular argued that the Judiciary Act of 1789 authorized the federal courts to define and punish common law offenses. [4]
[34] [35] The first federal criminal code was established by the Crimes Act of 1790, and the site of Washington, D.C. was chosen to be the location for the nation's capital in 1790 by the Residence Act.
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In the United States, section 31 of the Crimes Act of 1790 eliminated the benefit from federal courts in capital cases, [14] but it survived well into the mid-19th century in some state courts (for example, South Carolina granted a defendant benefit of clergy in 1855, and the state's Confederate Constitution forbade the benefit in cases of ...