{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11281706","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11281706","state":"North Carolina","county":"Rockingham","location_type":"County","file_day":19,"file_month":11,"file_year":1817,"filing_court":"Legislative","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"John Walker seeks mercy after being convicted of murdering a slave and sentenced to death.  Walker acknowledges that Governor William Miller \"was gracious enough to grant your petitioner a pardon, and respite the time of execution,\" but he \"did not finally extend his clemency.\"  Pleading for his life, Walker entreats \"your honorable body to bestow on him\" mercy, the \"greatest & best gift that a poor unfortunate criminal can be crowned with\" and to \"grant him his liberty.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Homicide"}]}]}