“By the mid-fifteenth century crimes subject to the death penalty … included the following: rebellion, fraud, bigamy, incest, arson, theft, adultery, carrying off a woman against her will, blasphemy, moving signs of property boundaries, attacking someone, high treason, child murder, using dishonest weights and measures, murder, counterfeiting, rape, attempted suicide,* striking someone to death, converting to Judaism, treason, having sex with animals, and sorcery.”
Source: Richard Marius’s Martin Luther: The Christian between God and Death (Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 4-5.
* I kinda like the can’t-lose for prospective suicides: If you fail to kill yourself, we will finish the job for you.