Message of Governor Morrill.

[Maine] : [Stevens & Sayward, Printers to the State], [1858]

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Document (Maine. Legislature. Senate) ; 37th Legislature, 1858, no. 7.

Governor Morrill asked the Legislature to amend the law on capital punishment. The language said a capital offender could not be executed until one year from his sentencing date and then at the direction of the governor. In practice, no governor had ordered an execution for years, so the public viewed this as an abolition of the death penalty. Governor Morrill thought the abolition should be written into law; many governors before him had asked for this also.

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