A Hanging in Detroit: Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution Under Michigan Law
(Part of the Great Lakes Books Series Series)
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On September 24, 1830, Stephen G. Simmons, a fifty-year-old tavern keeper and farmer, was hanged in Detroit for murdering his wife, Levana Simmons, in a drunken, jealous rage. Michigan executed only two people during the fifty-year period, from 1796 to 1846, when the death penalty was legal within its boundaries. Simmons was the second and last person to be executed under Michigan law. In A Hanging in Detroit David G. Chardavoyne vividly evokes...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0814331335
ISBN13:9780814331330
Release Date:July 2003
Publisher:Wayne State University Press
Length:239 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 8.8"
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