Fighting the Death Penalty: A Fifty-Year Journey of Argument and Persuasion (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781611863680)

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.

Author: Eugene G. Wanger
ISBN-10: 1611863686
ISBN-13: 9781611863680
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2020
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d