Jay reviewed recent capital punishment cases in the months prior to the passage of the...
2From 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...
3Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 March 1797 (Adams Papers)
...with more vagabonds, if the states go on to abolish capital punishmentsCapital punishment was...
4To 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...
5Abigail Adams to John Adams, 25 March 1797 (Adams Papers)
...Pennsylvania law restricting the use of capital punishment to cases of first degree murder (...
6To Thomas Jefferson from "Friend," 23 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...(David Brion Davis, “The Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment in America, 1787–1861...
7To 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...
8To Thomas Jefferson from James Wood, 3 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
...which specified prison terms rather than capital punishment for crimes other than first-...
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...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Carroll Brent, 10 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...a “great tenderness” in cases involving capital punishment, was surprised that the jury...