Mary Surratt’s Execution Mary Surratt. The first woman to be executed by the government. Mary Surratt should have been executed. She should have been executed because she lied to the authorities. Mary Surratt lied to the authorities. She lied about knowing Lewis Paine, according to A Burned Letter. This shows that Mrs. Surratt lied to keep Paine out of trouble, but they both got arrested anyways. Also according to A Burned Letter, during the first police visit, Mary Surratt didn’t seem to care about Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. The second visit was drastically different. She seemed utterly shocked with the news of president Lincoln’s assassination. This indicates that Mrs. Surratt knew about the plot and blatantly lied to the authorities.
Mary Surratt should have been executed because she knew about the plot to kill Lincoln. Mrs. Surratt had John Lloyd, the rented owner of the Surratt’s tavern, ready guns for Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, according to A Burned Letter. This means that Mrs. Surratt knew full well of, and helped with, the plot. Mary delivered a pair of field glasses (binoculars) to Lloyd to give to the assassins, as well as the guns (A Burned Letter). This shows that she counseled with John Wilkes Booth and other conspirators, and they all formed a plan together. Even if Mary Surratt lied to the authorities, she still might be innocent. “...Paine, George Atzerodt and David Herold, implying that they alone were participants in the assassination plot” (A Burned Letter). This indicates that Mrs. Surratt might not have been included in the assassination plot. “Booth had no reason to exclude Mary Surratt, had she been involved” (A Burned Letter). This shows that Mary could still be innocent, because Booth didn't have her name written. In closing, Mary Surratt should have been executed, because she has done many things to prove herself guilty. Many historians are still working on the case, but we may never know if she is innocent.
First, “Lamb to the Slaughter”, Mary Malony. She killed her husband when he said he was going to leave her and her baby all alone. I guess she couldn’t bare the thought of him leaving her all alone like that so she just killed him with their dinner. “At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up
Bridget Bishop was officially the first victim to be hung at the trials. As trials and executions continued, the colonist began to doubt that so many people could be guilty of witchcraft. The colonists feared that many innocent people were being
Though she was acquitted of the crime, officers still kept close watch over her. Clever Boyd took advantage of them and bewitched them into revealing military secrets. She then made her slave, Eliza Hopewell, carry the secret messages to confederate soldiers in a hollowed out watchcase.
April 14, 1865 was one of the most shocking days in American history. Only 5 days after the end of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, our then President was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer. Lincoln was watching a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. when Booth managed to get in Lincoln’s private box and fired a single-shot to the back of Lincoln’s head. When talking about Lincoln’s assassination you always hear Booth being mentioned, but what people don’t usually know is that there was a female participant. Mary Surratt, a Confederate sympathizer, was the only female participant in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Her and Booth, along with other conspirators which included her son John Surratt, met in her boardinghouse to plan Lincoln’s assassination. Kate Clifford Larson’s book, The Assassin’s Accomplice, tells the riveting story of the scheme to assassinate Abraham Lincoln through the eyes of Mary Surratt and her life story. Larson holds two degrees from Simmons College, an MBA from Northeastern University, and a doctorate in history from the University of New Hampshire. She part time teaches history at
Even from the scaffold, Lewis Powell, another conspirator condemned to die, cried, “Mrs. Surratt is innocent of all. She doesn't deserve to die with the rest of us.” So who was this woman, and most importantly, what role did she really play in the assassination of the President of the United States? Was she simply blindly aiding her son and thus innocent, as claimed by Lewis Powell, or did she have a more involved role in the plot? Mary Surratt opened up her home to conspirators and ended up paying the price for her decision.
	In history Rebecca Nurse was hanged on July 19, John Proctor on August 19, and Martha Corey on September 22.
The evidence between witnesses seeing Lizzie buy poison, washing a brown stained dress, her inconsistencies in the alibis, and her lacking of emotion all pointed to Lizzie Borden’s guilt. Jacob applied society’s outlook on an 1800’s American women as frail, feeble-minded, morally driven individuals who are incapable of a planned murder, to support her argument that Lizzie, no matter how guilty she may have been, would not be convicted of murder. Convicting Lizzie of murder meant opposing the established woman stereotypes which endangered the cohesive mindset of
lived in demanded her to give up her conspirator or bear the consequences of the
Rebecca Nurse was known to all as a saintly woman. She followed God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength. The Lord was her savior and protector. But because of mass hysteria, Mrs. Nurse was incriminated of exploiting witchcraft. This aghast most people because the most religious person they knew had been a witch. This was false. Rebecca Nurse was not a witch and had not demonstrated witchcraft by any means. She was innocent. She, like John Proctor, was solicited by Reverend Hale to confess but to no avail. Rebecca Nurse had held an immaculate reputation, and she was not about to let it get defamed by some false accusation. Rebecca Nurse, again like John Proctor, was hung for her falsely accused treacherous actions. This again is a prime example of what people will go through in order to keep a reputation that is accepted by
... president. She said that she wanted all the information released because she thought the Warren Commission could not find the real reason behind Kennedy’s assassination. There is plenty of evidence out there that shows that the Warren Report was false and not truthfully put together.
The Salem Witch Trials were a time in history where people were wrongly accused of being witches. In the spring of 1692 the Salem witch trials began. During the trials women were wrongly accused of being witches. When accused of being a witch they were tortured, tested, put on trial, and most of the time executed if not put in jail. The townspeople tortured the accused witches in the most inhumane ways. This was a very dark and eerie time for the Puritans in Salem, Massachusetts (P., Shaunak).
The whole reason why Bigger doesn’t see what happened to Mary as an accident is because it was what helped him apparently find a sole purpose; as if what happened was what needed to happen in his life. After the death of Mary, Bigger saw it as a way of giving the whites what they deserve as he slowly gained a high sense of invincibility and masculinity. Bigger’s motivation was the way he viewed white America. He convinced himself that his whole life was meant for him to accomplish that one thing. Even if it was by accident, it gave him a clear cut purpose he didn’t have before.
You see, there's this group of gals in Salem, Massachusetts who are getting pretty famous back in 1692. And they aren't celebrated for their super cool new bonnets or their fancy shamncy petticoats—nope, they're famous because they're pretending to be possessed by witches. Oh yes, you read that right: these mean girls are about to spark the Salem Witch Trials.
Elizabeth didn’t believe in the accusation and she refused to execute Mary. Secretly, Mary was found guilty and she was sentenced to be beheaded (Plaidy, Haws English Capti. par 1 Return to Scots par 1). Before Mary was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587, she wrote a four page letter to her brother-in-law Henry III King of France. Overall, Mary had a very complicated and hard life (Briley par
It came out rather peculiar. She tried again’) (14), and the way she fed the police the only piece of factual evidence they could have collected (17), was utterly divine. Mary Maloney is a mastermind when it comes to malicious, foul, and murderous plots. And she could get away with it again, too. Should she so choose.