1To James Madison from G. F. H. Crockett, 24 September 1823 (Madison Papers)
...Legislature of Kentucky, on the Abolition of Capital Punishments in the United States, and the...
2To James Madison from George Joy, 17 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
...that there has been no capital punishment for high treason? A better cause of satisfaction...
3Giovanni Carmignani to Thomas Jefferson, 7 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
...1808 because of his opposition to capital punishment. Carmignani became a professor of...
4To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 30 January 1806 (Madison Papers)
...many philanthropic works, condemned capital punishment, espoused prison reform and...
5To Thomas Jefferson from "Friend," 23 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...(David Brion Davis, “The Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment in America, 1787–1861...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Carroll Brent, 10 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...a “great tenderness” in cases involving capital punishment, was surprised that the jury...
7John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 April 1801 (Adams Papers)
...penalties for many crimes and limited capital punishment to first-degree murder. To...
8To Alexander Hamilton from Josias Carvel Hall, 4 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
...but I believe that a few examples of capital punishment, perhaps one in each regiment, will...
9To Alexander Hamilton from Josias Carvel Hall, 11 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
a few examples of Capital punishment perhaps." In the margin of the first page there...
10Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 March 1797 (Adams Papers)
...with more vagabonds, if the states go on to abolish capital punishmentsCapital punishment was...