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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adams, John | Adams’ Argument and Report: Special Court of Admiralty … | ≈1769-06-01 | ...it may apply to statutes imposing capital punishment for homicide, which statutes receive... | |
| 2 | Washington, George | Cash Accounts, December 1773 | ≈1773-12-01 | ...with intent to poison were to receive capital punishment “without benefit of clergy.” Those... | |
| 3 | Hancock, John | Washington, George | To George Washington from John Hancock, 22 August 1776 | 1776-08-22 | ...murdering Samuel Holden Parsons’s brother, capital punishment for persons “found lurking as... |
| 4 | Washington, George | Nicola, Lewis | From George Washington to Colonel Lewis Nicola, 5 … | 1780-02-05 | ...on account of the frequency of capital punishments and from General Woodford’s representation... |
| 5 | Huntington, Samuel | Washington, George | To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 16 … | 1780-11-16 | ...hath not already been done to inflict capital punishment on all such persons as shall directly... |
| 6 | Franklin, Benjamin | Vaughan, Benjamin | From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March … | 1785-03-14 | all capital Punishments...the deterrent effect of capital punishment. Madan was trained... |
| 7 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 February 1789 | 1789-02-21 | Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776–1865 |
| 8 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 24 February 1790 | 1790-02-24 | ..., especially his public protest of capital punishment, attracted sharp criticism in the... |
| 9 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 21 March 1790 | 1790-03-21 | ...within the law, which decreed a capital punishment. There were circumstances, too,... |
| 10 | Adams, Charles | Adams, John | Charles Adams to John Adams, 7 February 1796 | 1796-02-07 | ..., on 25 March. The act allowed for capital punishment in the case of murder and treason but... |