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Breta Johnson, Wife of an Executed Murderer

Posted on August 25, 2018 by jamesmarlandson

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Dateline: 1693 to 1694, Philadelphia. The earliest Americans, even peaceful Quakers, supported the death penalty—that’s for sure.

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