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Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination
02-07-2014, 09:12 AM
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RE: Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination
What Mary Surratt and "the boys" were really tried for was Treason. Treason always has and still carries the death penalty - or so I was told in a law class I took in college. Kidnapping the President would also be considered a part of the treason penalty as far as I understand the law.

Any lawyers out there who really know?
"The Past is a foreign country...they do things differently there" - L. P. Hartley
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RE: Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination - BettyO - 02-07-2014 09:12 AM
RE: Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination - Hess1865 - 10-25-2013, 08:59 PM
RE: Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination - Hess1865 - 11-21-2013, 08:24 PM
Congrats again - Matt Macoubrie - 11-27-2013, 04:59 PM
Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination - Rhatkinson - 10-08-2014, 02:38 PM

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