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Public Execution In Early American Civilizations

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In early American civilizations, there were many ways that the people of criminal status were punished for their actions. In early Puritan towns, one of the most popular forms of punishment was the convicted criminal to be sentenced to the gallows, or to be hung. “Public execution was a common practice that continued on for multiple decades. In these types of executions, masses of people would come together to listen to a sermon given by a puritan minister, hear the last words of the condemned criminal, then witness the killing” of the criminal (Turabian 2). Many people in the towns that induced hanging methods did not know anything other than the ways of what they had grown up knowing so they just continued to support the actions. The hangings

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