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Michigan is the only state in the country that has an anti-death penalty clause written into its constitution--Eugene G. Wanger's compelling arguments against capital punishment is a large reason the law was put in place. The forty pieces in this volume are writings created or used by the author, who penned the prohibition clause, during his half-century as a death penalty abolitionist. This collection is not only a fifty-year history of the anti-death penalty argument in America, it is also a detailed and challenging example of how the argument against capital punishment may be successfully made.…mehr

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Michigan is the only state in the country that has an anti-death penalty clause written into its constitution--Eugene G. Wanger's compelling arguments against capital punishment is a large reason the law was put in place. The forty pieces in this volume are writings created or used by the author, who penned the prohibition clause, during his half-century as a death penalty abolitionist. This collection is not only a fifty-year history of the anti-death penalty argument in America, it is also a detailed and challenging example of how the argument against capital punishment may be successfully made.
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Lawyer, author, and longtime opponent of capital punishment Eugene G. Wanger received the Champion of Justice Award from the Michigan Bar and is the author of the state's constitutional ban of the death penalty. He has been a member of the legal profession for over half a century.