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A Defence of Capital Punishment, and an Essay on the Ground and Reason of Punishment, with Special Reference to the Penalty of Death

A Defence of Capital Punishment, and an Essay on the Ground and Reason of Punishment, with Special Reference to the Penalty of Death (New York, 1846)

George Barrell Cheever (1807–1890) · New York, 1846

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

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✦. Memoirs (1852)

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New-York Daily Tribune

“Capital Punishment” · March 4, 1846 · p. 1

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“WE have had this book before us for several weeks, but the task of reading it has been so repulsive that we have been obliged to get through it by short stages”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.