The Life That Should Have Been Spared Mary Surratt had some guilt, but shouldn’t have been executed. She assisted in Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, however other suspected conspirators didn’t face penalties as severe as she did.
Mary Surratt assisted John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Mary Surratt’s tavern keeper testified “that she told him to keep guns at the ready on the day of the assassination - guns that were later used to kill Lincoln.” (Source #1) This means that on the day of Lincoln’s death Mary Surratt had told her tavern keeper to get guns ready and those same guns were the ones that Lincoln was shot with. According to Source #3 Booth and Herold were headed south and “they would pick up the ‘shooting irons’ Mary Surratt had ordered Mr. Lloyd to get ready that afternoon.” This evidence suggests Mary Surratt had a part in the plot of killing Abraham Lincoln.…show more content… However, Mary Surratt has lied before. According to Source #3 she swore as if to be taking an oath that she didn’t know Lewis Powell. Later she was proved wrong because she did know him and she had lied. Also “one historian calls Mary Surratt's testimony under police questioning ‘confident and arrogant.’”(Source #1) Some people like that historian could see through her calm and collected attitude she was displaying. She could’ve just been portraying that attitude for her own benefit because there’s evidence of her lying
