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Lincoln conspirators' execution (Old Arsenal Penitentiary - 1865)

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Execution
Mary Surratt, Powell, Herold, and Atzerodt were hanged in the Old Arsenal Penitentiary on July 7.[12]:362,365 Mary Surratt was the first woman executed by the United States government.[96] O'Laughlen died in prison in 1867. Mudd, Arnold, and Spangler were pardoned in February 1869 by Johnson.[12]:367 Spangler, who died in 1875, always insisted his sole connection to the plot was that Booth asked him to hold his horse.

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln#:~:text=Booth%20conceived%20a%20plan%20to,John%20Surratt%20to%20help%20him.
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