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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. Thus, it was not performed within the legal boundaries of Michigan as a matter of law.
Ann Wyley (or Wiley; died March 26, 1777) was an enslaved woman hanged for burglary in Detroit, at the time part of the British Province of Quebec.She is the only black person and one of the only two women known to have been legally executed in Michigan, and the only woman whose identity is known.
The last person executed for sorcery in Sweden. Laurien Magee: 1689-1710 Ireland: Burnt at the stake as part of the Islandmagee witch trial. [26] Mary Hicks: d. 1716 England: Mary and her daughter Elizabeth were to be the last Witches executed in England in Huntingdon. [27] Janet Horne: d. 1727 Scotland
In 1957, the state Legislature issued a kind of apology for Ann Pudeator and others who "were indicted, tried, found guilty, sentenced to death and executed” in 1692 for witchcraft.
Anthony Chebatoris (May 10, 1898 – July 8, 1938) was a Russian-born bank robber and convicted murderer who is the only person to be executed in the U.S. state of Michigan since it gained statehood in 1837.
At least 500 “witches” are thought to have been executed in England between 1542 and 1735, when witchcraft was a capital offense, according to government figures, although historians think the ...
Michigan , carried out only one federal execution at FCI Milan in 1938. Michigan's death penalty history is unusual, as Michigan was the first Anglophone jurisdiction in the world to abolish the death penalty for ordinary crimes. [1] [2] The Michigan State Legislature voted to do so on May 18, 1846, and that has remained the law ever since. [3]
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