1To Thomas Jefferson from James Wood, 3 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
...which specified prison terms rather than capital punishment for crimes other than first-...
2To Thomas Jefferson from "Friend," 23 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...(David Brion Davis, “The Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment in America, 1787–1861...
3Giovanni Carmignani to Thomas Jefferson, 7 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
...1808 because of his opposition to capital punishment. Carmignani became a professor of...