...it may apply to statutes imposing capital punishment for homicide, which statutes receive...
2Cash Accounts, December 1773 (Washington Papers)
...with intent to poison were to receive capital punishment “without benefit of clergy.” Those...
3To George Washington from John Hancock, 22 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
...murdering Samuel Holden Parsons’s brother, capital punishment for persons “found lurking as...
4From George Washington to Colonel Lewis Nicola, 5 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
...on account of the frequency of capital punishments and from General Woodford’s representation...
5From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March 1785 (Franklin Papers)
all capital Punishments...the deterrent effect of capital punishment. Madan was trained...
6To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 February 1789 (Adams Papers)
Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776–1865
7To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 24 February 1790 (Adams Papers)
..., especially his public protest of capital punishment, attracted sharp criticism in the...
8Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 21 March 1790 (Adams Papers)
...within the law, which decreed a capital punishment. There were circumstances, too,...
9Charles Adams to John Adams, 7 February 1796 (Adams Papers)
..., on 25 March. The act allowed for capital punishment in the case of murder and treason but...
10To John Jay from Benjamin Rush, 9 July 1796 (Jay Papers)
...1796 that diminished the use of capital punishment and established Newgate Prison. He...