Specifically, the Puritan colonies were working to please God, and did such in a very strict and disciplined manner trying to keep the colonists clean of sin.10 Pirates avoided the strict religious colonies, like New England, because of the Puritan's involvement in the maritime world.11 On land in the New England and Chesapeake colonies, some of the most prosecuted crimes were sins, like drunkenness, swearing, and theft. ...

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Hypothesis: Due to the dubious and unproved value as a deterrent to violent crime, the inequity and mistakes inevitable in any system of justice instituted and administered by fallible human beings and the degrading and hurtful impulse toward retribution and revenge that it expresses, the abolition ...

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