Reports on the abolition of capital punishment / Reprinted by order of the House of representatives, from the legislative documents of 1835 and 1836.

Boston : Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers, 1837.

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Capital punishment.

I. Report, made in the House of representatives, February 25, 1835, by a committee ... appointed to consider the expediency of repealing all such laws and parts of laws as provide for the infliction of the punishment of death. (House documents for 1835, no. 36)--II. Report, made in the House of representatives, Feb. 22, 1836, by a committee ... appointed to consider the expediency of abolishing capital punishments, and to whom was also referred so much of the governor's address, as related to that subject.--III. Minority report of the last mentioned committee.--IV. Report, made in the Senate, March 28, 1836, by a committee ... to whom was referred so much of the governor's address as related to the abolition of capital punishment. (Senate documents for 1836, no. 73.)

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