I think that Michigan abolished the death penalty by law in 1847, except for the crime of treason, although nobody has ever been executed for treason against the State of Michigan. We usually think of treason as a federal crime, but I suppose it's possible to commit treason against a state. The only incidence of it that comes to mind is Shay's Rebellion, which was between the American Revolution and the enactment of the U.S. Constitution. I seem to remember that was against the State of Massachusetts, which didn't have the resources to put it down at the time, so a bunch of rich businessmen raised their own private army. At any rate, Michigan's abolishment of the death penalty was put into the new state constitution that was being drafted in 1962. The only difference is that the Michigan State Constitution can only be amended by a direct vote of the people, while state law can be changed by the legislature and the governor any time they want. The story I read about the original 1847 law was that there was a big uproar when a popular saloon keeper was executed for killing his not so popular wife, and Michiganders wanted to make sure that something like that would never happen again.
As I understand it, the articles of impeachment have been drawn up, and now they have to be discussed and voted on by a committee. If that passes, then the whole house has to vote on them before it can be said that the president has been officially impeached.
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Funny thing about those Christmas lights. Sounds like the board lost their enthusiasm for the ban, but didn't want Uncle Ken to think that his efforts had anything to do with it.
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