...it may apply to statutes imposing capital punishment for homicide, which statutes receive...
2Cash Accounts, December 1773 (Washington Papers)
...with intent to poison were to receive capital punishment “without benefit of clergy.” Those...
3To George Washington from John Hancock, 22 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
...murdering Samuel Holden Parsons’s brother, capital punishment for persons “found lurking as...
4From 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...
5To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 16 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
...hath not already been done to inflict capital punishment on all such persons as shall directly...
6From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March 1785 (Franklin Papers)
all capital Punishments...the deterrent effect of capital punishment. Madan was trained...
7To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 February 1789 (Adams Papers)
Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776–1865
8To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 24 February 1790 (Adams Papers)
..., especially his public protest of capital punishment, attracted sharp criticism in the...
9Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 21 March 1790 (Adams Papers)
...within the law, which decreed a capital punishment. There were circumstances, too,...
10Charles 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...