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 is among the glorious objects of Christianity to save men’s lives, not to destroy them – to abolish the gallows and every other instrument of inhumanity, as well as war and slavery – to reclaim the criminal and not to ruin him – to overcome evil with good , and not to extract eye for eye, or tooth for tooth, or life for life.”
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