death penalty

The U.S. Justice Department says it will seek the death penalty if a Detroit man is convicted of gang-related killings.The government filed a notice…

Michigan is the only state that includes a prohibition on the death penalty in its constitution. Eugene Wanger was a young Republican delegate to the…

On this day 183 years ago, thousands of people gathered to watch the second and the last execution in Michigan. Stephen Simmons was sentenced to death for…