It sounds like things turned out ok after all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wade
What a time
Edit: According to Wikipedia, there were 220 capital offenses under the so-called "Bloody Code".
Offenders as young as 7 years old were subject to capital punishment.
However, many who were sentenced were reprieved, for various reasons. Between 1770 and 1830, out of an estimated 35,000 death sentences, only about 7,000 were actually executed.