Fighting the Death Penalty

A Fifty-Year Journey of Argument and Persuasion

• Author(s): Eugene G. Wanger,
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Pages: 252
• ISBN_10: 1628952865
  ISBN_13: 9781628952865
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Law / General , Law / Criminal Law / Sentencing , Social Science / Criminology , History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) ,

Description:... 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.