1To James Madison from George Joy, 17 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
satisfaction that there has been no capital punishment for high treason? A better cause of satisfaction would have been that no one had deserved it.Monroe wrote: “and I add, with peculiar satisfaction, that there has been no example of a capital punishment being inflicted on any one for the crime of high treason” (
2To James Madison from G. F. H. Crockett, 24 September 1823 (Madison Papers)
An Address to the Legislature of Kentucky, on the Abolition of Capital Punishments in the United States, and the Substitution of Exile for Life