Treason Act 1814 became simply hanging, which was the method of execution for murder. The original penalty for women was to be drawn to the place of execution and burned at the stake. Burning was abolished by the Treason Act 1790 in Great Britain and by the Treason by Women Act (Ireland) 1796 in Ireland. The 1814 Act also permitted the King to authorise the use of an alternative method, beheading, which was not abolished until 1973 (although obsolete long before then). The Act was amended by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 when the death penalty was abolished and replaced with imprisonment
United Nations moratorium on the death penalty not to reintroduce it; 4. "Requests" the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-third session on the implementation of the present resolution; 5. "Decides" to continue consideration of the matter at its sixty-third session under the same agenda item. "The General Assembly," "Reaffirming" its resolution 62/149 of 18 December 2007 on a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, "Welcoming" the decisions taken by an increasing number of States to apply a moratorium on executions and the global trend towards the abolition of the death penalty, 1. "Welcomes" the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation