the city repeals the law that criminalized adultery more than a century later

new Yorkone of the most modern cities on the planet, still had crimes from another era still in force today, such as the case of adulterythat This Friday, she finally abolished this crime from her legal arsenal.

Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on Friday which expired a crime declared in 1907 and which has been defined as follows: An adulterer is “any person who has a sexual relationship with another person while he or she has a living spouse, or when the other person has a living spouse.”

That same year, The New York Times published an article with the first arrests made under the new law: A couple who lived together were arrested and had to pay $500 (a fortune at the time) to be released temporarily. They had been reported by the man’s wife.

According to state legislator Charles Lavine, who promoted legislative reform, a dozen people have been persecuted for this crime over the past 50 yearsand of these, only five resulted in a conviction.

The last case of which there is evidence – remember television BNC– it’s from 2010When A woman caught having sex in a parkbut there was no trial because the accused pleaded guilty in exchange for a light penalty.

The same channel recalls that Adultery is still a crime in several states of the Union and is used almost exclusively to force divorce casesbut very rarely end in conviction.