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A Hanging in Detroit: Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution under Michigan Law

By David Gardner Chardavoyne
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By David Gardner Chardavoyne
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The first historical study—and a riveting account—of the last execution in Michigan.

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 Detroi...

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