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Michigan , carried out only one federal execution at FCI Milan in 1938. Michigan's death penalty history is unusual, as Michigan was the first Anglophone jurisdiction in the world to abolish the death penalty for ordinary crimes. [1] [2] The Michigan State Legislature voted to do so on May 18, 1846, and that has remained the law ever since. [3]
The Governor of Michigan signed the bill into law. [31] In August 2023, a Michigan fruit and orchard market farmer who opposed same-sex marriage won a court case officially "based on legal precedent". [32] Since 2023, LGBTQ people are explicitly included within Michigan's Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act.
The second-largest city in Michigan, Grand Rapids recorded a murder rate of 13.8 per 100,000 in 2020, more than double of the United States rate of 7.8 per 100,000. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The overall crime rate declined by one-third between 2003 and 2011, [ 14 ] but Grand Rapids set a record with 38 homicides in 2020.
Mid-Michigan Correctional Facility: St. Louis: Consolidated with Pine River Correctional Facility and now called Central Michigan Correctional Facility: 2010 October 17 [1] Michigan State Prison: Jackson: Split into multiple units 1988 Built 1842 Michigan Youth Correctional Facility YCF Baldwin: Closed 2005 October 1 Mound Correctional Facility ...
The Michigan Compassionate Care Initiative was an indirect initiated state statute that allowed the medical use of marijuana for seriously ill patients. It was approved by voters as Proposal 1 on November 6, 2008, 63 percent in favor to 37 percent opposed.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed two bills into law earlier this week that will allow pharmacists in the state to prescribe hormonal birth control. House Bill 5436 gives Michigan ...
The official history of motion picture production in the U.S. state of Michigan dates back to the beginning of the Post–World War II baby boom.As of March 14, 2013, the Michigan Film Office website contains a list of 319, filmed in Michigan titles, beginning with This Time for Keeps, starring Esther Williams and (Jimmy Durante) in 1946, followed by Anatomy of a Murder, starring Jimmy Stewart ...
J.D. 1936 Dean of the Brooklyn Law School: Troy A. McKenzie: J.D. 2000 Dean of New York University School of Law: Bridget McCormack: J.D. 1991 Professor University of Michigan Law School and founder and co-director of its Michigan Innocence Clinic James J. Reynolds: J.D. Assistant Superintendent, New York City Board of Education [1] [2] Abbe ...