May 17, 1844 Brother Kurtz, a clergyman and editor of Lutheran Observer, is here quoted: ‘A number of individuals, with Mr. Garrison at their head, have been petitioning the Massachusetts…
Category: <span>Capital Punishment</span>
January 3, 1845 A meeting held at which Garrison and others resolve to petition the legislature to “abolish capital punishment in this Commonwealth”. Includes the following: ” Resolved, That it…
February 7, 1845 Under the heading, Foreign Intelligence, a notice about a man who now confesses to a murder for which another was executed. “This is not the first time,…
June 13, 1845 From the Providence Republican Herald, there is an unsigned letter to the Editor. “I have always been an advocate for the infliction of Capital Punishment for the crime…
January 9, 1846 Here is notice of the FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE ABOLITION OF CAPTIAL PUUNISHMENT, to be held on the 14th of January in Washington…
March 30, 1849 Under the title Shall He Be Hung?, here is an article about Washington Goode, a “colored man, a sailor, … under sentence of death”….noted is a petition…
April 13, 1849 A report from the N.W. Washingtonian of an enthusiastic meeting at Tremont Temple, at which about five hundred people signed a petition for Goode’s repreve The article…
April 20, 1849 Here is a listing, submitted by J. M. Spear, of fifty-nine towns from which 5119 petitions have been collected, and forwarded to the legislature.
June 1, 1849 The same issue has a notice of a public meeting to be held in the Melodeon, to take into consideration the hanging of Goode, “and to effect…
April 12, 1850 John M. Spear writes to Garrison, informing him of the number of people who have signed petitions to the Massachusetts legislature, advocating the Abolition of Capital Punishment.…
April 27, 1855 Henry C. Wright addresses a long article to The Rev. Lyman Beecher. Beecher has evidently argued for the right of the state to punish by hanging. Wright,…