Legal Executions in New England

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Legal Executions in New England
Legal Executions in New England
Author : Daniel Allen Hearn
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Publisher : McFarland
Language : English
Release Date : 13 August 2015
ISBN : 9781476608532
Pages : 452 pages
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Legal Executions in New England by Daniel Allen Hearn Book PDF Summary

Between 1623 and 1960 (the date of the last execution as of 1999), Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont legally put to death more than 700 men and women for a wide variety of capital crimes ranging from army desertion to murder. This is a companion volume to Legal Executions in New York State and Legal Executions in New Jersey, both published by McFarland. It is comprised of chronologically arranged biographical entries for the executed persons. Each entry gives personal data on the executed person, including age, ethnicity, and gender, as well as a detailed account of the crime for which he or she was sentenced to death and information on the place and method of execution. Fully indexed.

Legal Executions in New England

Legal Executions in New England by Daniel Allen Hearn

Between 1623 and 1960 (the date of the last execution as of 1999), Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont legally put to death more than 700 men and women for a wide variety of capital crimes ranging from army desertion to murder. This is a companion volume to Legal Executions in

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Legal Executions in New York State by Daniel Allen Hearn

On August 5, 1639, Gregory Peterson, a soldier at the Fort Amsterdam garrison, was executed by a firing squad for an unknown act of mutiny. Peterson was the first person known to be executed in what was to become New York. All known executions conducted in or by the estate of New

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