Was this Lincoln conspirator guilty? At this museum, you decide.

[L Verge]

John has pretty much given the same reasons why some were spared that we point out on tour at the Surratt House. The ones who received the death penalty were those who remained in close communication with Booth up to within hours before the assassination. Those who went to prison were those who dropped the project after the kidnap plot (that John doesn't believe in) failed. Mary Surratt's trip to the tavern that afternoon did her in.