1Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 March 1797 (Adams Papers)
...with more vagabonds, if the states go on to abolish capital punishmentsCapital punishment was...
2Abigail Adams to John Adams, 25 March 1797 (Adams Papers)
...Pennsylvania law restricting the use of capital punishment to cases of first degree murder (...
3Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 21 March 1790 (Adams Papers)
...within the law, which decreed a capital punishment. There were circumstances, too,...
4Charles 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...
...it may apply to statutes imposing capital punishment for homicide, which statutes receive...
6John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 April 1801 (Adams Papers)
...penalties for many crimes and limited capital punishment to first-degree murder. To...
7Giovanni Carmignani to Thomas Jefferson, 7 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
...1808 because of his opposition to capital punishment. Carmignani became a professor of...
8To 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...
9From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March 1785 (Franklin Papers)
all capital Punishments...the deterrent effect of capital punishment. Madan was trained...
10To Thomas Jefferson from "Friend," 23 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...(David Brion Davis, “The Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment in America, 1787–1861...