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In "A Hanging in Detroit" David G. Chardavoyne 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.

The first historical study--and a riveting account--of the last execution in Michigan. On September 24, 1930, 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 e...

A chronological history of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, from its beginnings in the 1830s to present.