Could John Have Spared Mary

[KLarson]

I believe that Mary would have received a shorter sentence, but that John might have been spared the noose, too. The jury could not have exonerated her of all guilt. But she would not have hanged. Since John was not, nor had he been for over a week and a half, in Washington, I think he would have been gound guilty of the general conspiracy, but not the assassination. He would have probably served a long sentence instead.