List of individuals executed in Delaware

The following is a list of individuals executed by the U.S. State
U.S. state
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of Delaware
Delaware
Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...

since capital punishment

Capital punishment

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was resumed in 1976. All of the 15 individuals were convicted of murder

Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...

and have been executed

Capital punishment

at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, near Smyrna

Smyrna, Delaware

Smyrna is a town in Kent and New Castle counties in the U.S. state of Delaware. It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area...

, Delaware.

#	Executed person	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	Method of execution	Victim(s)	Governor
1	Steven Brian Pennell Steven Brian Pennell Steven Brian Pennell , aka The U.S. 40 Killer, was convicted of the murders of two New Castle County, Delaware women and suspected of three more. Pennell, an electrician by trade, picked up his victims in his van along U.S. 40 near Bear, a corridor known for prostitution activity...	White White people White people is a term which usually refers to human beings characterized, at least in part, by the light pigmentation of their skin...	34	M	14-Mar-1992	Lethal Injection Lethal Injection Lethal Injection is the fourth studio album by California-based rapper Ice Cube. Similar to the rapper's previous albums, it was a commercial hit, debuting at #5 on the Billboard 200 with 215,000 copies sold in its first week...	Marleene Simms	Michael Castle
2	James Allen Red Dog	Native American Native Americans in the United States Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...	39	M	03-Mar-1993	Lethal Injection	Hugh Pennington	Thomas Carper
3	Kenneth W. DeShields	Black Black people The term black people is used in systems of racial classification for humans of a dark skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups.Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified as "black", and often social variables such as class, socio-economic status also plays a...	33	M	31-Aug-1993	Lethal Injection	Elizabeth Reed	Thomas Carper
4	Andre S. Deputy	Black	45	M	23-Jun-1994	Lethal Injection	Byard Smith and Alberta Smith	Thomas Carper
5	Nelson W. Shelton	White	27	M	17-Mar-1995	Lethal Injection	Wilson Mannon, Jr	Thomas Carper
6	Billy Bailey Billy Bailey Billy Bailey was a convicted murderer hanged in Delaware in 1996. He became only the third person to be hanged in the United States since 1965 and the first hanged in Delaware in 50 years...	White	49	M	25-Jan-1996	Hanging Hanging Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain...	Gilbert Lamberton and Clara Lamberton	Thomas Carper
7	William Henry Flamer	Black	41	M	30-Jan-1996	Lethal Injection	Byard Smith and Alberta Smith	Thomas Carper
8	James B. Clark, Jr. James B. Clark, Jr. James B. Clark, Jr was an inmate executed in April 1996 in the State of Delaware for the murder of his adoptive parents. Clark, Jr., who was motivated by a desire for the couple's life insurance, confessed to the crime, which took place in May 1994 one month after he had been released on parole for...	White	39	M	19-Apr-1996	Lethal Injection	Elizabeth Clark and James Clark, Sr	Thomas Carper
9	David J. Lawrie	White	37	M	23-Apr-1999	Lethal Injection	Michelle Lawrie, Fawn Lawrie, Tabitha Lawrie, and Charles Humbertson	Thomas Carper
10	Willie G. Sullivan	Black	28	M	24-Sep-1999	Lethal Injection	Maurice Dodd	Thomas Carper
11	Dwayne L. Weeks	Black	37	M	17-Nov-2000	Lethal Injection	Gwendolyn Weeks and Craig Williams	Thomas Carper
12	David F. Dawson	White	46	M	26-Apr-2001	Lethal Injection	Madeline Marie Kisner	Ruth Ann Minner Ruth Ann Minner Ruth Ann Minner is an American politician and businesswoman from Milford, in Kent County, Delaware. She is a member of the Democratic Party who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Delaware and two terms as the first female Governor of Delaware.-Early life...
13	Abdullah Tanzil Hameen (formerly Cornelius Ferguson)	Black	37	M	25-May-2001	Lethal Injection	Troy Hodges	Ruth Ann Minner
14	Brian David Steckel Brian Steckel Brian David Steckel was a convicted murderer executed in the U.S. state of Delaware. On September 2, 1994, he was convicted of the rape and murder of 29-year-old Sandra Lee Long near Prices Corner, near Wilmington....	White	36	M	04-Nov-2005	Lethal Injection	Sandra Lee Long	Ruth Ann Minner
15	Robert W. Jackson, III	White	38	M	29-Jul-2011	Lethal Injection	Elizabeth Girardi	Jack A. Markell Jack A. Markell Jack A. Markell is an American businessman and politician who has been Governor of Delaware since 2009. Markell, a member of the Democratic Party from Centreville, in New Castle County, Delaware, served as State Treasurer of Delaware from 1999 to 2009 and was elected as the 73rd Governor of...

External links

Delaware Department of Correction

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