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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Delaware since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. All of the 16 people were convicted of murder and have been executed at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, near Smyrna, Delaware. [1] Capital punishment was abolished in Delaware on August 2, 2016. [2]
Delaware has the fourth highest number of executions per capita between 1976 and 2023, behind Oklahoma, Texas and Missouri [3] Sixteen people were executed in the state after the Gregg v. Georgia decision of 1976. [4] The last person executed in the state was 28-year-old Shannon Johnson, who was executed on April 20, 2012. [1]
Billy Bailey (January 1947 – January 25, 1996) was a convicted murderer who was hanged in Delaware in 1996. He became the third person to be hanged in the United States since 1965 (the previous two were Charles Rodman Campbell and Westley Allan Dodd, both in Washington), and the first person hanged in Delaware in 50 years.
James B. Clark Jr. (February 8, 1957 – April 19, 1996) was an inmate executed in the State of Delaware for the murder of his adoptive parents. [1] Clark confessed to the crime. He was motivated by a desire for the couple's life insurance. The murders took place on May 22, 1994, one month after he had been released on parole for an earlier ...
The following are lists of people executed in the United States. ... List of people executed in Delaware; List of people executed by the District of Columbia;
On March 14, 1992, at 9:49 a.m, Pennell was executed by lethal injection, becoming the first person executed in Delaware in 46 years, and the 165th person to be executed in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. [4] His last meal consisted of crab cakes, steaks, corn on the cob, french fries, bread and butter and a ...
Since reaching historic highs in the late 1990s and early 2000s, use of the death penalty in America has steadily declined, with a dwindling number of jurisdictions responsible for a growing ...
Following his execution, Delaware's supply of lethal injection drugs expired, meaning they had no means of executing death row inmates. [10] On August 2, 2016, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that the state's death penalty was unconstitutional. [11] [12] Due to the ruling, Johnson is officially the last person to be executed by the state of ...