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Shannon M. Johnson (November 18, 1983 – April 20, 2012) [1] was an American convicted murderer and rapist who was executed for the 2006 murder of 25-year-old Cameron Hamlin in Wilmington, Delaware. Johnson was executed by lethal injection at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center on April 20, 2012. [ 2 ]
The Wilmington News Journal was founded by W. J. Galvin on Oct. 15, 1915, originally called the Wilmington Daily News. In 1916, it merged with the semi-weekly Journal Republican and became known as the Wilmington Daily News Journal. It was owned by the Galvin family until it was sold to the Brown Publishing Company in 1986. [5]
He was removed as chair following his May 2021 arrest for domestic violence accusations. [10] In 2021, Brown was hired as Executive Director of the Wilmington HOPE Commission, a not-for-profit organization which aims to lower recidivism by helping ex-offenders re-enter society after leaving prison.
Flowers sit in a shopping cart outside the door of the closed Walmart in Monkey Junction Sunday. A store employee was shot and killed Saturday evening while trying to stop a shoplifting incident.
Beaton became a reporter for The News Journal in Wilmington by September 1977. [11] He reported on local high school sports then regularly wrote hockey columns on the Philadelphia Flyers. [1] When USA Today was founded in 1982, Beaton was one of its original writers.
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The Wilmington Ten were nine young men and a woman who were wrongfully convicted in 1971 in Wilmington, North Carolina, of arson and conspiracy. Most were sentenced to 29 years in prison, and all ten served nearly a decade in jail before an appeal won their release.
A spokeswoman for the Joyner-Francis family said of the overturning of Carr's conviction, "The most dangerous city in the nation for children between 12 and 17 is Wilmington, Delaware. The overturned ruling by the Delaware Supreme Court regarding the murder of Amy Joyner-Francis supports this fact."