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1 Massachusetts House Report No. 3 1 (1832)

handle is hein.death/mahorpt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: HOUSE......No. 3. IN HousE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JUNE 21, 1831. The Committee to whom was referred a 1 Report on the Punishment of Death, have carefully examined and considered the same, and being deeply impressed with the great importance, of the subject to the well being of society, and of the propriety of the greatest deliberation and caution in changing a mode of punishment, which has been so long and so generally in use, they regret that the shortness of the time allotted to the continu- ance of the present Session of the General Court, for- bids the attempt to accomplish that change, which they are unanimously of opinion ought to be made in the criminal laws of this Commonwealth at this time. They therefore REPORT, That the further consideration of this subject be re- ferred to the next' General Court, and that tAc Hon. I