Executed for blasphemy

The last person to be executed for blasphemy in England. This was in 1697. Thomas Aikenhead - Wikipedia Was that ever done over here?

It is entirely possible, although from the mid 1800’s I would suspect the church looked after its own with the big exodus out of CT and the war that followed. Excommunication from the church and therefore the community would have been effective enough as punishment in those days. I will go dig through my afrikaner history literature to see if I can find something from the era preceding.