SODOMY, an unnatural crime, so called from the city of Sodom, which was destroyed by fire for the same. The Levitical law adjudged those guilty of this execrable crime to death; and the civil law assigns the same punishment to it. The law of England makes it felony. There is no statute in Scotland against Sodom; the libel of the crime is therefore founded on the divine law, and practice makes its punishment to be burned alive.