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020			_a0814331327 (alk. paper)
020			_a0814331335 (paper : alk. paper)
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100	1		_aChardavoyne, David G.
245	1	2	_aA hanging in Detroit : _bStephen Gifford Simmons and the last execution under Michigan law / _cDavid G. Chardavoyne.
260			_aDetroit : _bWayne State University Press, _cc2003.
300			_axii, 239 p. : _bill. ; _c23 cm.
440		0	_aGreat Lakes books
500			_a2004 Michigan Notable Book
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and index.
520			_aPublisher description: 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 not only the crime, trial, and execution of Simmons, but also the setting and players of the drama, social and legal customs of the times, and the controversy that arose because of the affair. Chardavoyne illuminates his account of this important moment in Michigan's history with many little-known facts, creating a study that is at once an engrossing story and the first historical examination of the event that helped bring about the abolition of the death penalty in Michigan.
600	1	0	_aSimmons, Stephen Gifford, _d1780-1830.
650		0	_aHanging _zMichigan _zDetroit _xHistory.
650		0	_aCapital punishment _zMichigan _zDetroit _xHistory.
651		0	_aDetroit (Mich.) _xHistory.
651		0	_aDetroit (Mich.) _xSocial conditions.
651		0	_aDetroit (Mich.) _xPolitics and government.
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