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The judgment of the Court is therefore that you be taken hence to a place of confinement within this Territory; that you there be safely kept in confinement until Friday the 26th day of January 1877; that between the hours of ten o'clock in the forenoon and three o'clock in the afternoon of that day, you be taken and in this District be publicly shot until you are dead, and may Almighty God have mercy upon your soul.
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No. 31
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Lee.
The People Etc. vs. John D. Lee, impleaded &c.
Journal Entry for Judgement and Sentence
Filed Oct. 10, 1876 James R. Wilkins Clerk.
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The People of the United States in the Territory of Utah
vs.
John D. Lee, impleaded with
Defendant.
Sentence and Judgment
The defendant herein, John D. Lee, having been by the verdict of the jury duly convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree as appears by the record therof and thereafter on this day been on motion of the U.S. District Attorney duly arraigned at the bar of this Court in open session of the court, for sentence, and having been by the Court asked whether he had anything to say why judgment should not now be pronounced against him, the defendant thereupon made answer that he had nothing further to say: and said defendant then at his option, asked the court that he be executed by being shot.
Therefore the Court pronounced the following judgment and sentence:
