In South Carolina, the English colony specifically cites the buggery statute of 1533 as a basis
for the South Carolina law. In other words, they were subject to the death penalty.
Henry VIII enacted the first English statute against homosexuality in 1533. This law made
it a capital felony for any person to commit the detestable and abominable vice of buggery
with mankind or beast. The law remained unchanged from 1563 to 1861, just about 300 years.