Rejected petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites, 1851-1855.

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Kentucky. Governor (1851-1855 : Powell). Rejected petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites, 1851-1855.

Rejected petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites, 1851-1855.

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These files document Governor Lazarus W. Powell's use of the governor's power and privilege to refuse pardons to convicts and to deny petitions for the postponement and remission of fines. Included are petitions for people convicted of a variety of offenses, which were rejected by the governor, including a number of petitions in favor of and opposed to a pardon for a Greenup County man sentenced to hang in August 1852 for his participation in a murder.

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