<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it . Please introduce links to this page from related articles; try the Find link tool for suggestions . (December 2011) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it . Please introduce links to this page from related articles; try the Find link tool for suggestions . (December 2011) </Td> </Tr> <P> Hanging has been practiced legally in the United States of America from the nation's birth, up to 1972 when the United States Supreme Court found capital punishment to be in violation of the eighth amendment to the United States Constitution . Four years later, the Supreme Court overturned its previous ruling, and in 1976, capital punishment was again legalized in the United States . Hanging has returned to the states of Washington and New Hampshire . </P> <P> In 1623 Daniel Frank was condemned to hang for theft in the Jamestown colony . It was the first hanging to take place in that part of the British North American colonies that eventually broke away as the United States . Frank is actually not the very first entry in Watt Espy's encyclopedic 15,000 - plus catalogue of "American" executions--he's the second . In 1608, George Kendall had been shot for a mutinous plot, also in Jamestown, Virginia . We don't have a firm date for that event . It seems that Kendall was suspected of spying for the Spanish against the interests of the British explorers and settlers . (http://www.executedtoday.com/2012/08/05/1623-daniel-frank-the-first-hanging-in-the-usa/) John Billington is thought to be one of the first men to be hanged in New England . Billington was convicted of murder in September 1630 after he shot and killed John Newcomen . </P>

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