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By the way,” the Baptist minister Isaac Backus wrote in his, “Mr. Reed at Abington told me that he was at Boston yesterday and See Willm. ”7 There was nothing unseemly about going to an execution. Indeed, a hanging was considered an especially wholesome experience for children. The midwife Martha Ballard sent her daughter Dolly and her son Ephraim to see Edmund Fortis hanged in Maine, two years after she had helped Fortis’s wife deliver their ªrst child. “Only 13 boys were in school,” the lawyer Henry Van Der Lyn’s son reported the day George Denison was hanged in Chenango County, New York.

25 The managers of most hangings were not experts; they were local ofªcials and contractors who typically had little opportunity to acquire any experience. The everpresent liquor must have been intended in part to strengthen the nerve of the participants in a difªcult and gruesome task. When a sheriff could ªnd no one willing to carry out the work for money and drink, he might induce another condemned prisoner to do the job in exchange for a reprieve. Sheriffs did not have the authority to grant reprieves themselves, but the courts and governors that did possess that authority were willing to cooperate.

In this inestimable privilege, our fellow citizens of color enjoy a mutual share with us; and this unquestionably should dictate to them a correspondent spirit of gratitude and the practice of every social virtue. ”20 Hierarchies of all kinds could be explained and justiªed at hangings by ministers who worked such messages into their sermons. Even apart from their substantive message, the sermons were a form of drama in their own right. “You deserve to suffer the eternal pains of hell, it is just in God to send you to the hopeless regions of the damned,” Timothy Pitkin screeched at the murderer John Jacobs before an appreciative audience.

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