Why was Mary Surratt not photographed after her arrest?

[Eva Elisabeth]

Roger and Laurie, thanks for your replies!

(09-14-2013 09:14 AM)Dave Taylor Wrote:  Dr. Mudd was also one vote away from being acquitted entirely. He received a guilty vote of 5 out of 9. One more guilty vote would have meant death, and one more not guilty vote would have set him free as there would no longer have been a majority for guilty (4 out of 9).

If Dr. Mudd would have gained acquittal by a guilty vote of four or less, shouldn't this have been the same for Spangler & Co?

(09-14-2013 09:14 AM)Dave Taylor Wrote:  So five of the commission members, some of whom voted guilty, signed the plea for clemency.

In case those commission members later seriously regretted the decision I could imagine they had felt guilty of causing her death for the rest of their lives.

Obviously a commission member that didn't want to vote for a death penalty nor for acquittal, but for imprisonment, had no option to secure the vote counted just therefor and represented solely this intention (whatever the total result was). That must have been an enormous pressure.
Were the members of the commission assigned without the option to deny?.

I forgot one question: Why was Booth's body exhumed in 1867 and reburied in the storeroom? (Strange place anyway!)