Did you know the last state-sanctioned execution by hanging occurred in 1996 in Smyrna, Del.?
Published: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Updated: Monday, April 23, 2012 23:04
Death row inmate Billy Bailey stepped up to the gallows at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Del. on Jan. 25, 1996. John Painter, public information officer for the Delaware Department of Corrections, says the state passed legislation to ban hanging as a means of execution in 1986, having already switched to using lethal injections. However, criminals sentenced to death prior to the ban could still choose the gallows. Bailey was found guilty on two counts of first-degree murder in 1980 after he was accused of murdering an elderly couple in Cheswold, Del. His court appeals lasted until 1996, when he chose to die by hanging at the age of 49. He was the last death row inmate in the U.S. to have the option.
Bailey weighed 220 pounds at the time of his execution, and the gallows required extensive renovation to ensure that they were structurally sound. The gallows have since been dismantled. Painter says certain macabre collectors would pay a hefty sum for the gallows, but the ethical choice was to have them destroyed. He maintains that capital punishment is legally required in service to the state of Delaware.
Delaware currently has 19 prisoners on death row, all of them male. The First State is one of 34 in the U.S. with the death penalty since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. Research shows the system has flaws, most surprisingly a high cost. In Texas, the average death penalty case costs $2.3 million, the equivalent of three life terms in prison. In a poll from the University of Colorado, 88 percent of academics from the country’s top criminology programs say the death penalty does not deter homicide.
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Anonymous
Dear U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL 'the honorable" ERIC HOLDER JR. Attorney general "Beau" of the great state of Delaware, and Delaware superior court judge, "the honorable" Jerome O. Herihy,Why is this being covered up??? Sounds like those mansonic stalkers in Lancaster Co Pa, Lebanon Co Pa, and Lower dauphin Co Pa are at it again. Grandpa told me about this "white glove treatment" these freedom fighter and gate keeper engage in, but today we call it, Terror stalking, organized gang stalking, organized cause stalking, "Felony" retaliation of a whistleblower by corporate stalking, and community based mobbing, We new terms for these form of criminal activity, and corruption, and the internet is bring right into your livingrooms and making you aware of this type of police misconduct, and abusive behavior by authority figures in communities. Except this time those cause stalking retards are engaging in "felony" retaliation of a whistleblowers with the help of University of delaware security guards. I think the last time I checked the federal government, the state Delaware, and the state Pennsylvania have laws prohibiting retaliating against whistleblowers, and those who make formal "good faith" complaints against employers that are harassing "work place mobbing", and discriminating against employees. Who does a ten month investigations on a whistleblower, that ends ten months later, and three weeks before the PA Governor demands a responds to the 60 counts of harassment and discrimination? Judge Jerome O. Herlihy of the Delaware superior court in Wilmington stated to a sociology professor in late Decemeber of 2010 in his courtroom, "What are University of Delaware security guards headed to Lancater Pennsylvania for anyway? You are not dangerous. Jail is for dangerous people, and you are certainly not one of them. I am not going to put you in jail. There is nothing wrong with you. Where did you get this attorney? He isn't helping you. Get rid of him. He is no good. Has he communicated with you at all? What kind of deal did these two give you. Tell me! Don't listen to him. What is he whispering to you? Of course I will see your evidence. Yes I would like to see it. You are just depressed. You know you are not guilty of this. This is weird. I don't understand this. You are from york, and not lancaster? This doesn't make any sense. What are security guards from the University of Delaware heading up to Lancaster Pa for anyway? this is weird." They are cause stalking individuals with the help of these mentally ill people assigned to stalk the professor up in Lancaster Co, Lebanon Co. and Lower dauphin co. He wasn't aware of it. They organized cause stalked him based on the fact that the sociology professor filed formal "good faith" complaints against Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster Pa. Those formal "good faith" complaint are as followed:PHRC Case No.200800802 and EEOC Case no. 17F200960329. He was a whistleblower, that filed a 60 count complaint of harassment and discrimination against Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster PA. He was third professor to be harassed, "academic mobbing", discriminated against in two years, and the fourth person to be discriminated against if you count the H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-A-L who was discriminated against and ran off at Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster Pa. Breaking in ones house through the window when nobody is home, and being told by the neighbors when nobody is home. Creating the illusion that a Pacifest professor, who has never owned a gun, nor done any drugs, and is both a reasonable person, and quiet intellectual is Dangerous, has weapons, is aggressive, a time-bomb, a loose cannon, unstable, on drugs, a racist, and has WEAPONS. Sounds pretty bizarre to me U.S. Attorney general ERIC HOLDER JR., and the honorable Judge Jerome O. Herlihy. But what I know I am not a criminologist nor a forsenic psychologist? University of Delaware security reports riddled with lies, being accused of wanting to blow the University of Delaware, and kill more kids then virginia Tech, thrown in jail at 15x to 30 the normal amount of bail, college books stolen from house, ex-girlfriends gifts of polo shirt stacked up in the middle of the bed, and three U.S.Army medals from the professor three honorable discharges stolen off the dresser in his bedroom. Then a Freemason named Ole' Ad Crable at the Lancaster Newspaper is immediately contacted and the professor is placed on the interenet 12x, currently it is 6x...Gee do you think this MasonicWarrior is internet blackballing and black listing somebody??? University of Delaware security reports "psuedo police reports" riddled with lies. Nobody communicating with anybody...And then attempting to encourage a forensic psychologist to have the professor diagonosed with Schzophrenia or some incurable illness such as being delusional. Now why would you want to do that to a WHISTLEBLOWER??? PA STATE TROOPER RICHARD T. DRUM on the scene...
Anonymous
He just kept running his mouth...We had to shut that big mouth whistleblower up who filed those formal complaint PHRC Case No.200800802 and EEOC Case No.17F200960329. He just kept running his mouth...and running his mouth. He wouldn't shut up. He filed all those complaints with the EEOC and the Pa Governors office of the Human Relations Commission. And help a brother of the brotherhood in distress...We had to silence him, and shut him up...We made a decision, and that was to destroy him. It took a while, but we got him...'Organized Gang Stalking" works everytime when you target an individual who you isolate, and isn't from the community. We caught him. When you stalk somebody for two years, and you harass them constantly sooner or later you are going to get them for something...So we shut that big mouth sociology professor up at Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster Pa. Long live organized cause stalkers that engage in "Felony" retaliation of whistleblowers with community mobbers...now let go get a beer at the IRON HILL...there are some college girls down there...
Anonymous
Dear Honorable Eric Holder Jr. U.S. Attorney General, Judge Jerome O. Herlihy of the Delaware superior court, and Attorney General "Beau" of Ole Delaware,Did you know organized cause stalkers are roaming around Lower Dauphin county Pa, Lancaster County Pa, and Lebanon County Pennsylvania, and engaging police and security as tools in "felony" retaliation of whistleblowers? They call them "MasonicWarriors", but I just call em "Organized Gang Stalkers". Did you know they are organize cause stalking and retaliating against whistleblowers for the soul purpose of discrediting them, nullifying them, and silencing them? In December of 2010 Judge Jerome O. Herlihy of the Wilmington Superior court stated to a sociology professor that taught at Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster Pa, "What are University of Delaware security guards headed up to Lancaster Pennsylvania for anyway? This doesn't make any sense? You are not dangerous. I am not going to put you in jail. Jail is for dangerous people and you are certainly not one of them. Did you attorney communicate with you at all? where did you get him? Get rid of him. He isn't helping you. He is no good. What kind of deal did these two make with you? tell me. What is he whispering? don't listen to him. There is nothing wrong with you. You are from York, but this happened in Lancaster Pa. This is weird." Here the professor house was broken into through the window. He filed formal "good faith" complaints against Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster Pa. Those complaint numbers were as followed:PHRC Case No.200800802 and EEOC Case No.17F200960329. A total of 60 counts of harassment, and discrimination were filed against Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster Pennsylvania. 3rd professor, and fourth person discriminated against, harassed, and driven off if you include the H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-A-L in less then two years. The day after the formal complaint reached HACC in Lancaster, there was curiously a security report down at the University of Delaware guard shack. Ten month later, and three weeks before the Pa Governor demanded a response to 60 counts of harassment and discrimination the professor was accussed of crimes, and his house was busted in through the window. They said he wanted to blow up "The University of Delaware", and kill more kids then Virginia tech. lol When nobody was home these U.D. security guards rushed up to woods ave in lancaster and busted through the window. The neighbors on Woods Ave in Lancaster were apparently watching the professor house. The professor was accussed of being Dangerous, Aggressive, a racist, unstable, on drugs, a time-bomb, a loose cannon, and had WEAPONS. His house was broken into, and college books were taken, his ex-girlfriend gifts of polo shirts were piled up in the middle of the bed, and his three army medals from his three honorable discharges on the dresser vanished. The Pacifest professor never owned a gun in his life, and never did drugs in his life. He treated everybody with kindness, and was a reasonable man, who was simply a quiet intellectual. Pa State Trooper Richard T. Drum stated, "I have never seen an investigation like this. This certainly isn't state police protocol, nor none I have ever seen. I don't know why they took 90% of that stuff. It was weird they were taking picture and going through strange things. It had nothing to do with any charges, and you should get it all back. They walked across the street in of an August afternoon, and knew exactly who was home on WOODS Ave in Lancaster. They talked to them like they knew them. This is weird. We just communicate with people. We talk to people. We just don't come out and bust into people houses. This is strange. It doesn't make any sense. I just the middle man here. You don't have any guns. This has all been blown out of proportion. This is strange." A FBI agent stated, "this doesn't make any sense. What are security guards from the University of Delaware heading up to lancaster Pa. That is weird." Do you think they were giving the stuff to HACC's attorney MasonicMan??? Formal complaints:PHRC Case No.200800802 and EEOC Case No. 17F200960329. The sociology professor was the third professor at Harrisburg Area Community College in lancaster to be discriminated against, harassed "mobbed" and chased off, and fourth person in two years if you count the H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-A-L who was discriminated against, not allowed to use the bathroom, and run off out of her major. This made the paper, and she filed a EEOC complaint too. Ole' Freemason Ad Crable of the Lancaster Pa Paper, "that little internet black baller", and internet black lister didn't cover the H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-A-L's formal complaint, nor the two professors formal complaints. One of those professor made the Havard newspaper. However, Ole Freemason Ad Crable of the Lancaster Newspaper didn't forget to blacklist the professor of sociology, and place him on the internet 12x. That ole...
Anonymous
Did you know that retaliation of a "whistleblower" or one who files a formal "good faith" complaint could lead to "felony" retaliation of a whistleblower? And that each state, and the federal goverment has laws specifically protecting whistleblowers? Retaliation can vary, just as much as the compliants filed can vary. People who retaliate against a whistleblowers are sinister, an evil clever, and terrible in nature. And that covering up the retaliation of a whistleblower by doing the "freemason schuffle" could lead to charges of conspiracy to commit a crime, police misconduct, and police abuse of authority??? And an entire host of other charges that I am not legally aware of??? Either way you look at it, regardless if you get away with the retaliation of a whistleblower, or the retaliation of one who files a Formal "good faith" complaint with the PHRC or EEOC, it is still corruption, isn't it??? if you skirt the law, manipulate the law, and responsed by saying "it was just good police work" it is still retaliation against a whistleblower, isn't it?...And those who retaliated against a whistleblower can never be trusted again. And a whistleblower, through studies is truely "a trustworthy" person by research, and not the liar you created in order to destroy the whistleblowers reputation. The purpose of retaliating against a whistleblower is to: discredit them, nullify them, silence them, leave them destitute, institutionalize them, put them in jail, black list them and black ball them, have people believe they are a horrible person, and committed a horrific crime, destroy them, or push them to sucide...How can you ever feel good about knowing you took part in those things??? What was the pay off??? what did you get in exchange??? Did you feel part of something??? Whistleblower retaliation is a very interesting field of law. You are usually dealing with a lot of slime balls, liars, and not trustworthy people in authority positions...but if you are dealing with the whistleblower they are usually honest and a fourth right person...
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