| 31. | The Court had added an " escape clause " test to determining whether a law was a bill of attainder.
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| 32. | Pym consequently orchestrated the passage of a bill of attainder against Strafford, who was then executed in May 1641.
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| 33. | In 1641, Pembroke voted in favour of the bill of attainder against Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford.
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| 34. | Pym immediately moved a Bill of Attainder, asserting Strafford's guilt and ordering that he be put to death.
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| 35. | Cromwell was arraigned under a bill of attainder and executed for treason and heresy on Tower Hill on 28 July 1540.
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| 36. | Madison vigorously defends the outlawing of bills of attainder, ex post facto laws and laws impairing the obligations of contracts.
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| 37. | Faulkner petitioned the court for eleven years before they finally granted her request, reversing the bill of attainder in 1711.
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| 38. | Queen Catherine was to be convicted by bill of attainder, rather than by ordinary prosecution in a court of law.
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| 39. | Sentence could be meted out through a " bill of attainder, " a legislative act allowing punishment without trial.
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| 40. | The impeachment was the first since 1459 without the king's official sanction in the form of a bill of attainder.
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