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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Michigan; which abolished the death penalty in 1847. The one person executed after 1847 was executed by the United States strictly within federal jurisdiction. Thus, it was not performed within the legal boundaries of Michigan as a matter of law.
This sentence is not provided for under Michigan law. Gabrion was the first person in the United States to receive the death penalty for a crime committed in a non-death penalty state since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988, as well as the first person to be sentenced to death in the state of Michigan since 1937. [7] [16]
Even though Michigan abolished the death penalty in 1846, the federal death penalty can still be imposed. Thus, the United States was able to execute Tony Chebatoris at the Federal Detention Farm (now Federal Correctional Institution, Milan) near Milan, Michigan in 1938, for a murder he committed while robbing a federal bank in Midland, Michigan.
Indiana State Prison, Michigan City, Indiana Killed an Indiana State Police trooper during a bank robbery in Logansport, Indiana on May 25, 1937. [21] [22] Nelson Charles Hanging Murder November 10, 1939 Federal Jail, Juneau, Alaska Killed his mother-in-law in the Alaska federal territory. [23] Herbert Hans Haupt: Electrocution
Robert Holmes Bell, a federal judge for 30 years whose trials included one that led to a rare death sentence in Michigan, has died. Bell died Thursday, Michelle Benham, the court’s chief deputy ...
Three states abolished the death penalty for murder during the 19th century: Michigan (which Only executed 1 prisoner and is the first government in the English-speaking world to abolish capital punishment) [40] in 1847, Wisconsin in 1853, and Maine in 1887.
The year's sports highlights in Michigan included the Detroit Lions compiling an 11–3 record with the Fearsome Foursome defensive front, the Michigan Wolverines baseball team's victory in the 1962 College World Series, the 1961–62 Michigan Tech Huskies men's ice hockey team winning the national championship, and Gordie Howe scoring his ...
These photographs from the United States National Archives give us a glimpse of life on campus during the early 20th century.The pictures, part of a National Archives collection from the Detroit ...