Fighting the death penalty : a fifty-year journey of argument and persuasion

Fighting the death penalty : a fifty-year journey of argument and persuasion /

Michigan is the only state in the country that has a death penalty prohibition in its constitution -- Eugene G. Wanger's compelling arguments against capital punishment is a large reason it is there. The forty pieces in this volume are writings created or used by the author, who penned the proh...

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Main Author: Wanger, Eugene G. (Author)
Other Authors: Radelet, Michael L. (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Capital punishment > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Michael L. Radelet
  • Preface
  • 1. Committee Proposal 20 of the Legislative Powers Committee of the Michigan Constitutional Convention, dated January 11, 1962
  • 2. Reasons in support of Committee Proposal 20, submitted by the Committee on Legislative Powers to the Convention on January 11, 1962
  • 3. Verbatim debate of the Michigan Constitutional Convention on Committee Proposal 20, on January 16 and April 30, 1962, from its official record
  • 4. Legislative committee hearing testimony, March 15, 1973
  • 5. Does the parole risk of convicted murderers justify reviving the death penalty in Michigan? (leaflet), March, 1974
  • 6. Death - ultimate penalty - proves itself the ultimate injustice for all (leaflet), April 30, 1974
  • 7. Michigan Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice hearing testimony, February 10, 1975
  • 8. Death ban defended : Michigan Committee Against Capital Punishment press release, April 7, 1975
  • 9. Michigan Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice hearing testimony, April 7, 1975
  • 10. Why we should reject capital punishment (pamphlet), 1978
  • 11. Why Michigan Republicans should oppose the death penalty (brochure), August, 1980
  • 12. Capital punishment and law enforcement, September 26, 1975
  • 13. Eye for eye no aid, by Michigan lt. Governor James Brickley, 1974
  • 14. Representative assembly of the State Bar of Michigan speech, September 23, 1982
  • 15. Michigan Committee Against Capital Punishment history (leaflet), October, 1991
  • 16. The death penalty : what it does to the living, by William Kime and Eugene G. Wanger (brochure), April, 1993
  • 17. Legislative committee hearing testimony, September 8, 1994
  • 18. What prosecutors won't tell you, by Robert M. Morgenthau (leaflet), February, 1995 [abstract]
  • 19. Legislative committee hearing testimony, July 13, 1995
  • 20. Legislative committee hearing written testimony, October 7, 1997, with covering letter
  • 21. Will innocent persons be executed? : another perspective, by Michael Radelet (leaflet), November, 1998
  • 22. Michigan's historic ban of capital punishment (leaflet), December, 1998
  • 23. The cost of capital punishment (leaflet), December, 1998
  • 24. Documentation for The cost of capical punishment (leaflet), December, 1998
  • 25. Legislative committee hearing testimony, March 23, 1999
  • 26. Would the death penalty for "cop killers" help the police?, May, 1999
  • 27. Documentation for Would the death penalty for "cop killers" help the police?, leaflet, May, 1999
  • 28. Michiganians speak out on the death penalty, excerpted from an article in the New York Times by R. Bonner & F. Fessenden (leaflet), September, 2000 [abstract]
  • 29. How states stack up on death, an article in the New York Times by F. Fessenden (leaflet), September, 2000 [abstract]
  • 30. Michigan & capital punishment, an article from the Michigan Bar Journal (brochure), September, 2002
  • 31. Capital punishment in Ohio : a brief history, an aricle in the Ohio Lawyer (brochure), November/December, 2002
  • 32. Will innocent persons be executed if the death penalty is revived in Michigan? (leaflet), February, 2004
  • 33. Documentation for Will innocent persons be executed if the death penalty is revived in Michigan? leaflet, February, 2004
  • 34. Legislative committee hearing testimony, March 9, 2004
  • 35. Legislative committee hearing testimony, March 16, 2004
  • 36. A Christian pastor's view of the death penalty, by L.M. Hall (leaflet), March 16, 2004
  • 37. New York legislative committee hearing written testimony, January 21, 2005
  • 38. A basic overview of the arguments against the death penalty (brochure), 2009
  • 39. Data on the USA's nineteen abolition states, March 7, 2015
  • Appendix. Reasons for reviving capital punishment in Michigan and why they are wrong, 1989.

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