He is believed to be the first person executed by capital punishment in British North America. Captain George Kendall was executed for being a spy for Spain. Kendall was executed on December 1, 1608, by firing squad. Death penalty or capital punishment means the intentional killing of a person who is. The first recorded execution in the new colonies was that of Captain George Kendall in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608. The council responded by having Captain Martin announce Kendall's death sentence. Kendall argued that because Ratcliffe announced his punishment using his alias Ratcliffe, and not his real surname, Sicklemore, his sentence was nullified. Captain George Kendall, a member of the first Council of Jamestown, was executed by firing squad for the crime of espionage. The verdict of guilty was pronounced by Ratcliffe, to which Kendall objected on the grounds that Ratcliffe was not the president's real name. Captain George Kendall, a member of the first Council of Jamestown, was executed by firing squad for the crime of espionage. If you get me for defending the rights of men and women be they Indian or white it will be for a righteous cause. His words : I firmly convinced no person or people can ever prosper by indecency inhumanity, brutally and by disregarded human rights and human liberty. Kendall, already a prisoner, was brought before the council to answer to the charges. The blacksmith was pardoned for his crime because he supplied the information. The blacksmith named Kendall as a main conspirator in the plot. Ratcliffe was a tyrant and Kendall was protecting the Powhatan. The blacksmith was sentenced to hang, and while on the gallows, he persuaded Ratcliffe to speak with him in private about a plan to have Smith installed as president. In fall 1607, a fight broke out between the blacksmith, James Read, and the council president, John Ratcliffe. He was removed from the council, stripped of his arms, and imprisoned aboard a ship sometime between July and September 1607. He was still a member of the council on June 22, 1607, when the first report was written and sent to the council in London. After landfall was made at Jamestown Island, Kendall was apparently instrumental in the construction of the first fortification. Kendall arrived with the founding fleet, and was sworn to the council on May 13, 1607. 1570 – December 1, 1608) was a member of the first council appointed at Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia. First person executed in British North America (1570-1608)Ĭaptain George Kendall ( c.
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