Mary Surratt Research Paper

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Mary Surratt should have been executed, My reasoning for this is that Mary helped during the assassination on a lot of different subjects for example, she supplied the guns for the assassination, Surratt had a frequent visitor, An actor named John Wilkes Booth which was the killer of president Abraham Lincoln. Returning back to the topic of Surratt supplying the guns for the assassination those guns were later used by John to kill lincoln.
Another reason why Mary Surratt is guilty is that her son was friends with John, And at the night of the assassination he ran away thinking that the police would interrogate him. He was later sentenced to a civil court while on the other hand Mary Surratt was being sentenced by the US army.
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