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With the backing of Hearst, who dispatched famed editor Arthur Brisbane to Detroit to kickstart the new management, the Times became the fastest-growing paper in the city, rivaling The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press in the great Detroit newspaper war. The Times hit its highest circulation in 1951, with an average daily high of 438,757 ...
Demetrius Terrence Frazier (born October 29, 1972) is an American convicted murderer and serial rapist who is currently on death row in Alabama for the 1991 rape and murder of 40-year-old Pauline Brown, after a robbery on November 27, 1991.
On December 23, 2024, three years after Johnson was put to death, outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 out of the 40 inmates on federal death row. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] James H. Roane Jr. and Richard Tipton, Johnson's accomplices who were condemned to federal death row, were among the 37 prisoners to be pardoned, and they ...
On the night of April 18, William J. Nagel visited Stephan's restaurant. Nagel was a prominent member of Detroit's German-American community; he had served as Detroit postmaster (1913–22), Detroit city controller (1923–24), managing director of the Michigan Liquor Control Commission (1933), and president of the Grosse Pointe Savings Bank. [9]
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Michigan; which abolished the death penalty in 1847. The one person executed after 1847 was executed by the United States strictly within federal jurisdiction.
Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death.The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution ("being on death row"), even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists.
The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. The paper began in 1873, when it rented space in the rival Detroit Free Press 's building. The News absorbed the Detroit Tribune on February 1, 1919, the Detroit Journal on July 21, 1922, and on November 7, 1960, it bought and closed the faltering Detroit ...
Convicted of carjacking-related homicide of a 63-year-old woman and her 9-year-old granddaughter. Mitchell stabbed the woman to death and drove around 40 miles (64 km) with her body in the vehicle along with her granddaughter. He then slit the 9-year old's throat. He was the only Native American on death row until his execution. [11] Donald Trump