Was Mary Surratt Guilty Or Innocent? Mary Surratt was the first woman executed by the U.S Federal Government. She was a conspirator who helped with the Lincoln assassination. She was born in 1823, got married when she was 17, and owned a boardinghouse. Mary Surratt was guilty, but she probably shouldn’t have been hanged. She was guilty because s he knew the kidnapping plan, and she lied. Mary Surratt knew about the plan to kidnap President Lincoln. According to the story it tells us that John Wilkes Booth (the one who shot Lincoln) visits her shortly after learning that the President would attend Ford’s Theater in April. It was also at this meeting that he asked Mary to deliver a package to John Lloyd. It seems a little suspicious to know
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.
... of their jealousy and in 1692 she was imprisoned for months under these false accusations and in early 1963 was released. Though newly freed and with the charges dropped in court, the townspeople still held their vendetta against her or more precisely, her family name. Over the next couple years she lived as a beggar and in 1695 she died destitute.
John Wilkes Booth” (145). He continues to make plans for the day with Mrs. Lincoln, unaware
	In history Rebecca Nurse was hanged on July 19, John Proctor on August 19, and Martha Corey on September 22.
Mary Bryant was in the group of the first convicts (and the only female convict) to ever escape from the Australian shores. Mary escaped from a penal colony which often is a remote place to escape from and is a place for prisoners to be separated. The fact that Bryant escaped from Australia suggests that she was a very courageous person, this was a trait most convicts seemed to loose once they were sentenced to transportation. This made her unique using the convicts.
Soon after, she was recruited as a spy for the Confederate States of America. Because of her good reputation in D.C., she was not immediately suspected and was able to gather information more easily than someone who might not have had social ties. In July 1861 she forwarded information regarding the movement of soldiers towards Manassas, Virginia. Her report informed the Confederate military of the Union soldiers’ advance and helped them in the outcome of the First Battle of Bull Run. Because of her aid in the battle, she was arrested that August by the head of the Union secret service and put under house arrest at Fort Greenhow, the name later given to her home as it was used as a holding space for suspects and criminals under house arrest. However, she continued to send information even after her confinement and after her imprisonment at the Old Capitol Prison in January of 1862. In March, she was exiled to the South where she was welcomed as a hero. She sailed to Europe as an informal agent for the Confederacy. Unfortunately, she drowned on October 1, 1864 at the age of 51 on her voyage home to North America because her boat was heavy laden with an abundance of gold and other riches from European
Absent your testimony the judge will find Ms. Pickett guilty of DUI. The judge explained while there are no alcohol present, no admissions to drinking, no clear evidence that Ms. Pickett was drinking and no explanation for Ms. Pickett conduct and demeanor demonstrated prior to her arrest.
Late in 1836, Lincoln consented to a match with Mary on the off chance that she came back to New Salem. Mary did return in November 1836, and Lincoln courted her for a period; in any case, they both had misgivings about their relationship. On August 16, 1837, Lincoln composed Mary a letter proposing he would not point the finger at her on the off chance that she finished the relationship. She never answered and the wooing ended.[60]
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
Harriet Tubman jeopardized her life by helping slaves escape to the North. According to the Library of Congress, “There was a bounty offered for her capture because she was a fugitive slave herself, and she was breaking
Reputation was a precious commodity to have in the Puritan times, but “Half Hanged Mary” by Margaret Atwood, demonstrated how easy it was to lose a good reputation. Laws that kept women from sharing same characteristics from men were very common, and were enforced brutally. So i ask a question; Why was it so much easier for women to lose a good reputation? In Puritan society women were viewed to be the weaker sex thus having so many “simple” laws to be broken. In this poem, Mary is accused of owning land without being married, a law that if broken can be sentenced to hanging. This is what happened in this poem, “Half Hanged Mary”.
Presumed Innocent is a 1990 film adaptation of the novel written by Scott Turow. Presumed Innocent depicts a courtroom drama where the courtroom is the focus point of the plot. Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford) is the main character of the film who is a prosecutor that is charged with the murder of his co-worker and ex lover. As the film unfolds, the viewer sees courtroom participants acting in an unethical matter and how this hurts them in the end. Rusty Sabich has to prove his innocence while trying to solve the murder of the woman he had a romantic history with.
Mary Bell was a murderer, sadistic torturer of her victims, and a victim, more importantly she was a child. At the age of 10 Bell had killed two boys before the age of eleven. Growing up in the financially depressed town of Newcastle in England, in which Bell lived an impoverished life. Bell was born to her Betty Bell, a prostitute who suffered with mental illness and her father, presumed to be Billy Bell, a lifelong criminal who had a history of violence and was frequently unemployed. At the time of Mary’s birth, her parents were not married, and only married a few years after her birth.
In conclusion, Mary is clearly shown to have a very manipulative and sinister character because she was a cold blooded murderer who had no feelings for her husband when she killed him, and she made people believe her grieving stories to make them feel sorry for her. But, all she wanted at the end was to cover up all of the evidence so she does not get caught and go to jail.
In 1850, Harriet Tubman led her first successful rescue of enslaved African-Americans across the Mason-Dixie line to a place black people could live free. She did this at a time when injustice towards African-Americans was at an all-time high, women across all ethnic backgrounds were suppressed and the Fugitive Slave Act had just been passed, warranting their return to enslavers if she and her passengers were caught.