Who Was America's First Murderer?
On a day recently in September 1630 , John Billington – an original Plymouth colonist , a landholder , a founding father to two Son , a signer of the Mayflower Compact – put up with a noose around his cervix . He was sentence tohang . When he died that day , John Billington left behind a legacy of grim historic firsts for the New World . John Billington was the first person to institutionalise a crime in the dependency ....