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Procedure relative to an execution.

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TITLE XXV.
Sentences, Judgments
& Arrests.

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ARTICLE XV.

ALL Judgments on criminal matters calling for execution, will be executed in terms of the punishment, in all places without permission or Officialdom.
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ARTICLE XXI.

JUDGMENTS will be executed the same day they are pronounced.
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ARTICLE XXIII.

IF some woman prior to or following being

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condemned to death, appears or declares to be expectant, the Judges will order that she be visited by matrons, who will be officially appointed, & who will formulate their report as prescribed under the Titre des Experts, as per our Ordinance of the month of April 1667. And if she is pregnant, the execution will be deferred until following the birth.

ARTICLE XXIV.

The Sacrament of Confession will be offered to those Condemned to death, & they will be accompanied by an Ecclesiastic to the place of execution.

Source: Louis XIV, "Procedure relative to an execution, in l'Ordonnance ... pour les matières criminelles " (: Chez les Associés, 1670).

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