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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.
Artistic depiction of the execution by burning of three alleged witches in Baden, Switzerland in 1585. This is a list of people executed for witchcraft, many of whom were executed during organized witch-hunts, particularly during the 15th–18th centuries. Large numbers of people were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe between 1560 and 1630.
People executed in the Salem witch trials (20 P) Pages in category "American people executed for witchcraft" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
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.
She and her daughter were found guilty on September 22, 1692 and sentenced to hang. She was not immediately executed and instead, died in prison on December 3, 1692. Sarah Osborne – Died May 10, 1692, aged 49.
No city was ever organized into an independent county in this fashion and when a new Constitution took effect in 1963, the provision was removed. Michigan's boundary with Illinois is formed by Lake Michigan, and three counties have water boundaries with Illinois [citation needed]: Berrien County, Van Buren County, and Allegan County.
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]