Report relating to capital punishment.
1836
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Report relating to capital punishment.
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[Boston, Massachusetts] : [publisher not identified], [1836]
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Capital punishment, Feb. 1836
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Includes report, signed by Robert Rantoul, Jr., Chairman; text of a bill entitled "An act to abolish the punishment of death" (page 94-96); and the minority report (page 97-112), signed by James Boyd.
"Your committee have confined themselves to the discussion of three questions: 1. Has society a right from the social compact to take away life? 2. Is there any thing peculiar to either of our six capital crimes which requires the punishment of death? 3. Is there any command in scripture which enjoins on us to inflict that punishment in any case?"--Page 93.
"Your committee have confined themselves to the discussion of three questions: 1. Has society a right from the social compact to take away life? 2. Is there any thing peculiar to either of our six capital crimes which requires the punishment of death? 3. Is there any command in scripture which enjoins on us to inflict that punishment in any case?"--Page 93.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2012.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. (http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212)
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Print version: Massachusetts. General Court. 1836. House of Representatives. Committee on Capital Punishment. Report relating to capital punishment ... [Boston], [1836] (OCoLC)82328068
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