Michigan abolished the death penalty in 1847, and its state constitution expressly forbids capital punishment. Alabama Reflector is part of States Newsroom, an independent nonprofit website ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s ...

That’s after Michigan ... became a state Michigan hasn’t executed anyone and in 1846, that state became “the first government in the English-speaking world to abolish capital punishment ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital ...

Alabama’s plan to execute Demetrius Frazier on Thursday could be complicated if the governor of Michigan attempts to intervene. Frazier, convicted of the 1991 rape and murder of Pauline Brown ...

Four of Michigan’s starters are in their first year with the program and have never faced Ohio State nor Michigan State. That will change starting Sunday, when No. 20 Michigan visits Columbus ...

The Michigan State Spartans were not mentioned in Saturday's first mock bracket revealed by the tournament selection committee. Some bracketologists had the Spartans as high as a 2 seed before ...

The Illini led by as much as 16 points in the first half, but Michigan State rode a career-high 23-point game from Jaxon Kohler to wear down Illinois late in the game on the way to a 79-65 victory ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

Tom Izzo sits one win away from more history. Michigan State basketball hosts Indiana on Tuesday in its first chance for Izzo to break a tie with Bob Knight for the most conference wins in Big Ten ...