A Hanging in Detroit: Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution under Michigan Law (Great Lakes Books) Tormod Cockburn Author/Artist:Grover

Author/Artist:Grover

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A Hanging in Detroit: Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution under Michigan Law (Great Lakes Books) Tormod Cockburn Author/Artist:GroverOn 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