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1996: Bill Bailey, the Last American Hanged
ExecutedToday.com ^ | January 25, 2010 | Headsman

Posted on 01/25/2020 4:08:07 PM PST by CheshireTheCat

On this date in 1996, Billy Bailey was hanged for murdering an elderly couple in Delaware.

Bailey was condemned in 1980, which was before Texas debuted the lethal injection trend that would sweep the nation; therefore, he was sentenced to hang. When Delaware switched to injection in 1986, Bailey had the choice between his original hempen-necktie sentence or the newfangled gurney.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: crime; delaware; hanging
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To: CheshireTheCat

Fascinating, in a very weird way. I suppose hanging is a very effective way to kill people since so many amateurs do themselves in that way. That always amazes me, I could never figure it out! Me & Jeffrey Epstein, we’d never do that.


21 posted on 01/25/2020 5:21:32 PM PST by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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To: fruser1
Humane is the issue? HAH! Murdering done by the convicted perps is not even in the realm of ‘humane’ to their victims. I can lower the cost dramatically, and guarantee termination: just start them on a succinyl choline drip and let a half pint flow into their vein.
22 posted on 01/25/2020 5:22:28 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: fruser1

A Nurse anesthetist, not an ologist.


23 posted on 01/25/2020 5:23:14 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: coaster123

Yeah. I also once heard some doctor proposed executing people with heroin. It is definitely lethal at the right (over)dose. And, you know, it’s not bad while it’s happening.

This didn’t sound like the worst idea to me, but I’m an old 70s hippie!


24 posted on 01/25/2020 5:24:53 PM PST by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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To: Holdem Or Foldem

“Gilmore was a dumbass...”

HAHA, he certainly was if he lived in the USA and didn’t think they’d find, what 6? 8? 12? guys that would shoot a bullet at him to kill him?

This is a true schlemiel!


25 posted on 01/25/2020 5:28:44 PM PST by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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To: Holdem Or Foldem

I recall seeing old film of German soldiers executed during the Battle Of The Bulge. They were infiltrators wearing American uniforms.

I was surprised how quickly they were turned into rag dolls. Appeared to die instantly.


26 posted on 01/25/2020 5:40:05 PM PST by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: CheshireTheCat
"1996: Bill Bailey, the Last American Hanged.." Up 'til then!😎
27 posted on 01/25/2020 5:41:37 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: yarddog

Seen the same, amazing how fast it took the starch out of them.


28 posted on 01/25/2020 5:42:37 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: fruser1

“You were put out by a nurse anesthesiologist”

Actually, it’s “Nurse Anethetist”.


29 posted on 01/25/2020 5:46:34 PM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: fruser1
Execution needles are basically administered by people off the street. Doctors and nurses typically don’t participate.

Untold multiple millions of people have had injections "administered by people off the street" (often themselves), including for diabetics, vaccination of allergy sufferers, life threatening allergic reaction injections, and various other drug users across the nation.

But you don't think it is right for misanthropic creeps on death row?

30 posted on 01/25/2020 5:47:02 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: coaster123
I rather enjoy propofol!😎 In fact, I willed myself into a hernia so I could have some Monday AM!
31 posted on 01/25/2020 5:48:37 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Fair trial and a fine hangin’

- Judge Roy Bean


32 posted on 01/25/2020 5:50:57 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: yarddog

I would suppose having 11 30.06 rounds ripping through your body at one time would do the trick.


33 posted on 01/25/2020 6:00:23 PM PST by Thumper1960 (Trump-2020)
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To: coaster123

That’s gives me a Better idea to deal with Schiff and Nadler - impalement!


34 posted on 01/25/2020 8:39:09 PM PST by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: Bommer

Would prefer the old English sentence for Treason

“You are to be dragged on a hurdle to the place of execution. There you to be hanged by the neck, being alive, cut down, your privy members and intestines removed from your body and burned before your eyes. Your head cut off, and your body cut into quarters. Your body and head to be disposed of at the pleasure of his King’s majesty. May God have mercy on your soul.”


35 posted on 01/26/2020 2:57:33 AM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: Bull Snipe

36 posted on 01/26/2020 3:29:38 AM PST by Bratch (“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: higgmeister

I was merely proposing a possible reason as to why the guy I was responding to had such an easy time going out.

My only opinion on the form of death penalty is that if it were I’d prefer firing squad.


37 posted on 01/26/2020 4:38:38 AM PST by fruser1
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To: coaster123
I had a colonoscopy a couple of weeks ago. I was wheeled into the operatory, given an injection and I was out like a light. Anything after that point would have quickly done the job without cruelty.

Put 'em under, remove any parts usable for transplant, drain all blood for transfusions, and dispose of the remainder however you wish.

38 posted on 01/26/2020 10:58:42 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: jocon307
I suppose hanging is a very effective way to kill people since so many amateurs do themselves in that way.

Every holding cell should be equipped with a rope and a step stool. Imagine the savings!

39 posted on 01/26/2020 11:03:49 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed

“Imagine the savings!”

LOL, now, now, be nice!


40 posted on 01/26/2020 1:08:43 PM PST by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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