Whoever withholds, wilfully, information that would save the life of a person, charged with a capital offence, is substantially a murderer, and so recorded in the register of heaven." Did Jefferson want Burr convicted?
Beveridge argues that withholding life-saving information in a trial is morally equivalent to murder.
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