11281706https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11281706North CarolinaRockinghamCounty19111817Legislative001North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North CarolinaJohn 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."Homicide