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Capital Punishment

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
April
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Jacks m Patriot contums an account of the case of Ebeuezor II. Millcr who, in the ihll of IS '13, was convicted of tho murdcr of a squaw in Kent county in thisSiatc, and senteneed to be pxef cute d. Two days before the sentonce wes to have been cnrried iulo cllbct, umi altor the gallows was erectcd, his sentonco oí death was comniutcd to imprisonment lor Uiüin tho Sta!e Prison whcro lic had been for ncarly.throe ycars. Uiscntiro lanoccnce of the crime ot'which lic wasconvicted has been reccnlly made to appcar, by the dying confession of one Hovey, who was in company wiili him at iho time the nlleged murder was com mitted, and the principa] witness agnins Miller on his trial. Hovey acknowledg od that he was tho guilty person an ihat Miller was inocent. Upon a repres entation of these fucts 10 Gov. Felch, a a pardon was granted to Miller, a shor time since, and he was set at liberty,and has returned to his frieridá ia Vermont who are said to be highly respectablc- Th case doesnot aflbrd averyconclu sive argument m favor of capital punish

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News