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Democracy In America
Volume 1 (of 2)

CHAPTER II: Origin Of The Anglo-Americans--Part II
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The consequence was that the punishment of death was never more frequently prescribed by the statute, and never more rarely enforced towards the guilty.
[Footnote p: Code of 1650, p.

28; Hartford, 1830.] [Footnote q: See also in "Hutchinson's History," vol.i.pp.

435, 456, the analysis of the penal code adopted in 1648 by the Colony of Massachusetts: this code is drawn up on the same principles as that of Connecticut.] [Footnote r: Adultery was also punished with death by the law of Massachusetts: and Hutchinson, vol.i.p.

441, says that several persons actually suffered for this crime.

He quotes a curious anecdote on this subject, which occurred in the year 1663.


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