The Michigan Committee Against Capital Punishment has pub­lished a col­lec­tion of over 40 years of tes­ti­mo­ny, brochures, and oth­er infor­ma­tion by attor­ney and death-penal­ty expert Eugene Wanger. The col­lec­tion begins with the res­o­lu­tion from Michigan​’s 1962 con­sti­tu­tion­al con­ven­tion ban­ning cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in the state. It includes Wanger’s tes­ti­mo­ny at numer­ous hear­ings oppos­ing bills attempt­ing to rein­state the death penal­ty, as well as brochures and short arti­cles. The bound and boxed vol­ume pro­vides a com­pre­hen­sive overview of the his­to­ry of death-penal­ty leg­is­la­tion in Michigan. Through leg­is­la­tion in 1846, the state became first English-speak­ing gov­ern­ment to abol­ish the death penal­ty for mur­der and lesser crimes.

(E. Wanger, edi­tor, ​“Legislative Testimony Against Capital Punishment by Eugene G. Wanger, 1962 – 2005,” Michigan Committee Against Capital Punishment, 2013; DPIC post­ed Mar. 12, 2013). See Books and History of the Death Penalty.

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