Research Catalog

Title

Fighting the death penalty : a fifty-year journey of argument and persuasion / Eugene G. Wanger.

Author

Wanger, Eugene G.

Publication

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

Radelet, Michael L.

Description

xix, 228 pages; 24 cm

Summary

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 prohibition clause, during his fifty years as a death penalty abolitionist. His extraordinary background in forensics, law, and political activity as constitutional convention delegate and co-chairman of the Michigan Committee Against Capital Punishment has produced a remarkable collection. It is not only a fifty-year history of the anti-death penalty argument in America, it also is a detailed and challenging example of how the argument against capital punishment may be successfully made.

Subject

• Capital punishment > United States
• HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
• LAW / Criminal Law / Sentencing
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
• Capital punishment
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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 capital punishment (leaflet), December, 1998 -- 25. Legislative committee hearing testimony, March 23, 1999 -- 26. Would the death penalty for "cop killers" help the police? (leaflet) 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 article 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.

Call Number

JFE 19-9858

ISBN

• 9781611862317
• 1611862310

LCCN

2016027754

OCLC

957705084

Author

Wanger, Eugene G., author.

Title

Fighting the death penalty : a fifty-year journey of argument and persuasion / Eugene G. Wanger.

Publisher

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Radelet, Michael L., writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-9858