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- Categoria: Death Penalty News
- Pubblicato: 06 Maggio 2015
On this date 169 years ago, Michigan lawmakers voted to put down the death penalty, becoming the first state to ban capital punishment -- indeed, it was the first English-speaking government in the world to outlaw executions.
On May 18, 1846, the Legislature passed an act banning capital punishment, setting the maximum penalty for