The University of New Hampshire Law Review Volume 6 Number 3 Pierce Law Review Article 11 March 2008 Will the United States Follow England (and the Rest of the World) in Abandoning Capital Punishment? Frederick C. Millett Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr Part of the Law Commons Repository Citation Frederick C. Millett, Will the United States Follow England (and the Rest of the World) in Abandoning Capital Punishment?, 6 Pierce L. Rev. 547 (2008), available at http://scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol6/iss3/11 This Notes is brought to you for free and open access by the University of New Hampshire – Franklin Pierce School of Law at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in The University of New Hampshire Law Review by an authorized editor of University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. File: Millett - 6 Pierce L. Rev. 3 Created on: 3/5/2008 10:31:00 PM Last Printed: 3/5/2008 10:33:00 PM Will the United States Follow England (and the Rest of the World) in Abandoning Capital Punishment? FREDERICK C. MILLETT* The execution may have passed into British history, but it is an en- during if infrequent spectacle in the United States. The parallels between the British past and the American present are striking.1 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction ..........................................................................................548 II. The Death Penalty in England.............................................................551 A. The Bloody Code and Early History............................................551 B.