Lincoln's murder..Mary Surratt
It is common knowledge amongst Americans that President Abraham Lincoln wasassassinated. But what many people don't know about is the conspiracy surrounding it.The uncovering of this conspiracy led to the first execution of a woman in the UnitedStates. The resulting execution of Mary Surratt was unconstitutional.Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater on April 13, 1865. Multitudes of conspiracytheories have been concocted to try to explain why, but there is one that is considered thereal story. It is the concept of the small conspiracy that named John Wilkes Booth as After the murder, the government arrested hundreds of people it believed werecapable of having participated in the crime. In the end, eight were charged withconspiracy and the others were let go. (1865 Assassination) One of these eight people was Mary Surratt. She owned a boarding house inMaryland, right outside of Washington DC. Mary was 42 at the time of these occurrencesand had three children. (1865 Assassination) During the Civil War, one of her childrenJohn Surratt Jr., became a spy for the Confederate army. Through this, he met a mannamed John Wilkes Booth. They became friendly and Booth sta
(Constitution) Another Constitutional right that was denied was the right to due process of law. While I am not looking at whether or not Mary Surratt was guilty, Ido believe that the proceedings of her arrest and through to her execution were whollyunconstitutional. However, it ishighly suspected that Lloyd was intoxicated during the reported accounts because he wasknown as a heavy drinker. (Mary Surratt) On April 17, Mary was arrested with out a warrant because the Writ of HabeasCorpus had been suspended at this time. (Mary Surratt) On April 11, 1865, Mary made a trip to Surrattsville. On this trip, she reportedly told Lloyd that "the shootingirons would be needed soon". this is prohibitedby the sixth amendment. I also believe that Mary would havebeen found innocent on lack of concrete evidence. (Constitution) Even though Mary was sentenced to death andhung, her lawyers continued to pursue this issue and a year later, they got the SupremeCourt to declare this as Unconstitutional. Just as she was being taken into custody,Booth's accomplice Lewis Paine walked into the boarding house. (Constitution) Since The Civil War was a rebellion, it had beensuspended. These guns had been hidden at the tavern previously. (1865 assassination) The trial began on May 10.
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