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1 Abolish the Death Penalty 1 (1928)

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God helping me, I will never sign the death warrant of any man so
     long as I live.
                             -ABRAHAM LINCOLN.





     ABOLISH THE


DEATH PENALTY





            JOHN   QUINCY   ADAMS
(in a letter to the Massachusetts Society for the Abolition of Capital
                 Punishment in 1846)

        I do therefore heartily wish and pray
        for the success of your efforts to pro-
        mote the abolition of capital punish-
        ment; and if you can shape the laws of
        the land to a disclaimer of the right of
        Government itself to take from any hu-
        man being the life granted him by his
        Creator, I would welcome it as the har-
        binger of a brighter day, when no in-
        dividual of the race of man shall ever
        lose his life by the act of another.


    MASSACHUSETTS  COUNCIL  FOR THE ABOLITION
              OF THE DEATH PENALTY
                 4 PARK  STREET
                   BOSTON, MASS.