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and the prosecution of John Surratt for aiding and abetting the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Before Cannon tossed the case, Trump had pleaded not guilty to 40 felony counts that ...

Powell was tried and convicted, and was executed by hanging in July 1865. Surratt owned a boarding house in Washington where the conspirators met. The subject of some controversy, she received the ...