Tag: abolitionist

• Virginia to abolish capital punishment.

  

  On February 3 the Virginia State Senate voted 21 to 17 in favour of abolishing Virginia’s death penalty. Two days later the House of Delegates voted 57-41 to back repealing capital punishment in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Governor Ralph Northam has also indicated he will back the decision, remarking that “The practice is fundamentally inequitable.…

  CrimeScribe

  February 9, 2021

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime

  abolition, abolitionism, abolitionist, abolitionists, convict, convicted, conviction, convicts, crime, crime and punishment, criminal, criminals, death penalty, Donald Trump, electric chair, electrocuted, electrocution, executed, execution, executioner, executioners, executions, firing squad, gallows, hanged, Jerry Givens, Joe Biden, lethal injection, Martinsville, Martinsville Seven, murder, murdered, murderer, prison, prisoners, prisons, Richmond, shot, Virginia, Virginia State Penitentiary, Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

• Are Federal executions nearing their end..?

  

  Between 1953 and 2003 the US Federal Government carried out fourteen executions. Since June 2020 it has carried out nine, most recently that of Brandon Bernard at Terre Haute Federal penitentiary in Indiana. Tonight (within hours at the time of writing) it intends to perform another (Alfred Bourgeois) and has another four scheduled before the…

  CrimeScribe

  December 11, 2020

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

  abolish, abolition, abolitionism, abolitionist, abolitionists, Alfred Bourgeois, Brandon Bernard, Buffalo hangman, death penalty, Donald Trump, Dustin Higgs, electrocuted, Erie County, executed, execution, executions, Federal, Federal Government, female executions, Grover Cleveland, hangman, Joe Biden, John Gaffney, lethal injection, Lisa Montgomery, Louis Jones Jr, murder, murderer, murders, Patrick Morrissey, POTUS, President Trump, retribution, Sing Sing, Terre Haute, US, USA, William Barr

• The Broderick-Terry duel of 1859, the last notable duel in California.

  

  The duel between US Senator David Broderick and David Terry, former Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court is a rollicking tale of friendship-turned-feud; politics, pistols, slavery and slander. Their duel on 13 September 1859 would have made a terrific historical novel or movie and still might. Duels over political disagreements, personal enmity and often…

  CrimeScribe

  September 13, 2020

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

  37th Texas Cavalry, 49ers, 8th Texas Cavalry, Aaron Burr, abolitionist, Adairville, African-Americans, Alexander Hamilton, America, American Civil War, Americans, Appomattox, Arizona, Attorney-General, Bowie knife, Brodericl-Terry duel, Calhoun Benham, California, California Constitution, California Supreme Court, Chief Justice, Chivs, Civil War, Codo Duello, Colonel David Terry, Confederacy, Confederate, Confederates, David Broderick, David Colton, David Neagle, David Terry, Democratic Convention, Democratic Party, Democrats, Deputy US Marchal, duel, duelling, duelling pistols, duellists, duels, Federal Government, Fort Sumter, Frederick Douglas, free soil, gentleman, gentlemen, habeas corpus, History, insurrection, Intercontinental Hotel, Jim Bowie, judge, judges, justice, Kansas, Kentucky, Lake Merced, Lathrop, Lecompton Constitution, Marshal Franks, Merced, Mexico, Missouri, Munsey's, Munsey's Magazine, murder, murderer, murderers, murered, Native Americans, New Jersey, Northern California, Northerners, Palmito Ranch, Politics, Portsmouth Square, POTUS, President, President Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, pro-slavery, Reconstruction, Russelville, San Francisco, San Francisco Vigilance Committe, sbolitionists, Senator, slavery, South Carolina, Southern, Southern Confederacy, Southern gentleman, Southern gentlemen, Southerner, Southerners, statehood, Stephen Douglas, Stephen Field, Sterling Hopkins, Stockton Rural Cemetery, Tennessee, Texas, Tombstone, Treasury Secretary, Union, United States, US Attorney-General, US Attorney-General William Miller, US Senator, US Senator William Sharon, US Supreme Court, US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field, War Between the States, War of Northern Aggression, Warner Cope, Weehawken, William Miller, William Sharon