Generally, a person charged with a non-capital crime is presumptively entitled to be granted bail.

Convicts found guilty of non-capital crimes received seven-year sentences.

However, Congress and the Supreme Court made kidnapping a non-capital crime, with a statute of limitations, in the 1970s.

The last English execution for shoplifting was carried out in 1822, and in 1832 the House of Lords reclassified shoplifting as a non-capital crime.

The Act states that all non-capital crimes are bailable and that in capital cases the decision to detain a suspect, prior to trial, was to be left to the judge.

In order to spare petty criminals from being subjected to indefinite detention, he meted out flogging as a punishment to criminals who committed non-capital crimes and released them.

Though people in Utah were executed by firing squad for capital crimes under the assumption that this would aid their salvation, there is no clear evidence that Young or other top theocratic Mormon leaders enforced blood atonement for apostasy or non-capital crimes like miscegenation.

In 1961, legislation was introduced to reclassify murder into capital or non-capital offences.

Three days later, a new Homicide Act came into effect; murder by poison became a non-capital offence.

Transportation thus became a regularly available sentence for the courts to hand down to those convicted of non-capital offences as well as capital crimes.

Historically, hanging was the only method of execution used in Canada and was in use as punishment for all murders until 1961, when murders were reclassified into capital and non-capital offences.