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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 ]
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.
Joseph Solomon: murder: hanging: C Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 13 February 1995 [4] Douglas Hamlet, Franklin Thomas and David Thomas: murder: hanging: C Suriname: 13 March 1982 [65] [66] Wilfred Hawker: treason: firing squad: C Trinidad and Tobago: 28 July 1999 [4] Anthony Briggs [4] murder: hanging: A Uruguay: 25 September 1902 [67 ...
Three states abolished the death penalty for murder during the 19th century: Michigan (which has never executed a prisoner and is the first government in the English-speaking world to abolish capital punishment) [38] in 1847, Wisconsin in 1853, and Maine in 1887.
Indiana State Prison, Michigan City, Indiana Killed an Indiana State Police trooper during a bank robbery in Logansport, Indiana on May 25, 1937. [22] [23] Nelson Charles Hanging Murder November 10, 1939 Federal Jail, Juneau, Alaska Killed his mother-in-law in the Alaska federal territory. [24] Herbert Hans Haupt: Electrocution
Robert Holmes Bell, a federal judge for 30 years whose trials included one that led to a rare death sentence in Michigan, has died. Bell died Thursday, Michelle Benham, the court’s chief deputy ...
This sentence is not provided for under Michigan law. Gabrion was the first person in the United States to receive the death penalty for a crime committed in a non-death penalty state since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988, as well as the first person to be sentenced to death in the state of Michigan since 1937. [7] [15]
Florida, 458 U.S. 782 (1982) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for a person who is a minor participant in a felony and does not kill, attempt to kill, or intend to kill. Tison v. Arizona , 481 U.S. 137 (1987) – Death penalty may be imposed on a felony-murder defendant who was a major participant in the underlying felony and exhibits ...