Billy Bailey was convicted for murder and hanged in Delevare 20 years ago. He is the last person to be executed by this method in the USA. Bailey was convicted of killing 80 year old Gilbert Lambertson and his 75 wife, Clara. After the murder he arranged the bodies in two chairs and fled from the murder scene. He was spotted leaving the scene and arrested. He was found guilty in 1980 and sentenced to be hanged. Bailey was later given the option to be executed with a deathly injection, but chose to stick to the original hanging. He was quoted saying he was not going to let them put him to sleep. For his last meal he requested a well done steak with backed potato and sour cream and on the 25th of January was he executed. Only the states of Washington and New Hampshire in the US still offers hanging as a method of execution.
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