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Capital Punishment

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
February
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

tiboring :or me Auoniion 01 ims nutiein - :ice, have favornble prof pecls before them. unre Congres?, John Quincy Adoms hns 140,( ti notice that he will introduce n bill for Virg Vbolilion of (he Death Penalty. 687bill to aboiïsh public executions in cnpi - nses hnialroat!y been bronght in by J. R. ■ rsoll, pursuant U nolice, read twice and llon ... . m)v mitted . motion is now berore the Legislalnrc of tron nossee to abnlish (he death perxiliy. A lar motion t nw before tho Oliio J' re, and nlso before theT Legisla' res of Mima, Indiana, nnd Rhode Island. i Indiana a bill has pnssed the House of resentatives by a vote of 63 to 20, ihnt = s to the jury, in casea of capital crimes, a IM retionary power of finding the prisoner bo pa :ed at solitary confinement in the State ; ion for hfe, or that he be hung. 'his is evidently but an h'.direct mode of lishing hangrnjr. NEW HAMPSHÍRE IS COMING. the