 It has since been published, in the Winter 2019 issue of the "Journal of Lancaster County’s Historical Society".On 12 April 1982, a bicentennial commemorative cover for the Huddy-Asgill affair was produced.Historian Louis Masur argues that the Huddy-Asgill affair, in particular, "injected the issue of the death penalty into public discourse" and increased American discomfort with it.