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In 1806 an anxious crowd of thousands descended upon Lenox Massachusetts for the public hanging of Ephraim Wheeler condemned for the rape of his thirteenyearold daughter Betsy Not all witnesses believed justice had triumphed The death penalty had become controversial no one had been executed for rape in Massachusetts in more than a quarter century Wheeler maintained his innocence Over one hundred local citizens petitioned for his pardonincluding most remarkably Betsy and her mother Impoverished illiterate a failed farmer who married into a mixedrace family and clashed routinely with his wife Wheeler existed on the margins of society Using the trial report to reconstruct the tragic crime and drawing on Wheelers jailhouse autobiography to unravel his troubled family history Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D Brown illuminate a rarely seen slice of early America They imaginatively and sensitively explore issues of family violence poverty gender race and class religion and capital punishment revealing similarities between death penalty politics in America today and two hundred years ago Beautifully crafted engagingly written this unforgettable story probes deeply held beliefs about morality and about the nature of justice
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