Bailey Dies Among Fury of Protest and Relief
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In Section 2 ln Sports Explore McFadgion An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper your rescues Inner• Hens duck page BIO page B 1 Non-profit Org. FRIDAY FREE U.S. Postage Paid Newark. DE Vol ume 122, Number 29 Permit No. 26 January 26, 1996 Bailey dies among fury of protest and relief BY KELLY BROSNAHA Cm News &llror SMYRNA -Though the protesters Execution gathering outside the Delaware Correctional Center here during the hanging of Billy Bailey early Thursday morning stood at opposite ends of the 101: death penalty spectrum. they ;hared a common fervor. visible by their willing atLendance, despite chilly weather the many conditions. " We're here tonight because we haven't gotten the point across to people in th e United States that thi s legalized faces of murder must be abolished." said a woman carrying a placard bearing the words. "'Execute Laws. Not People." death Across the field. one man stood with another. "Justice is finally being served," he said. "Bailey deserves to diem the most BY KIM WALKER painfu I way possible.'' ,\.lmwnmK Neu Y Edirnr The hanging of Billy Bailey, 49 , the Thursday's hanging in Symrna subject of national attention and one of garnered national attention not o nly four executions carried out in the nation because it is one of four executions in this week, touched the nerves of those on the nation this week, but it is also the THE REVIEW I A lisa Colley both sides of the death-penalty argument. country· s third hanging since 1965 and (Left to right) Chris Lambertson, 20, a Del Tech student, Craig Lambertson, 16, a Dover High School student- great-great Delaware's first si nce 1946. Billy Bailey. convicted of killing a grandchildren of murder victims Gilbert and Clara Lambertson- and Nick Chickadel, a freshman in the university's parallel See full-page of execution program, show their support for Bailey's execution. Cheswald couple, wa sentenced to coverage, page 4. death in 1980. six years before lethal rnJection replaced hanging as Bailey's execution at I 2: I 6 morning Delaware's ofticial mode of execution. Thursday, enraged death penalty Bailey was .siven the option of lethal Committee probes Keepers case opponents, who felt his death was injection, but he declined to choose and inhumane and barbaric, and delighted was hanged out of default. Seven faculty members investigate student's tragic Towers fall; no conclusions yet those who felt Bailey deserved death in Judy Mellon, executive director of re!urn for his brutal slaying of elderly the American Civil Liberties Union, BY M ICHA£L LEWIS President of Student Life R o land Smith. as the laws are today as well,'' Colm said . "But couple Gilbert and Clara Lambertson in expressed concern over the hangi ng, Manu gmx Sports Editor Executive Director of H ousing David Butler, we' re looking at everything." their Cheswold home. because no current Delaware Four months after university freshman Robert Vice President Pete Hayward , Assistant Vice Smith could not be reached for comment. A protest vigil held outside the grounds corrections officers had ever A. Keepers fell 13 stories to his death from the President Tom Vacha, Dean of Nursing Betty Both Colm and Butler said no specific dates of the Delaware Correctiona l Center participated in a hanging. C hristiana East Tower, the university committee Paulanka and Vice President Stephen Grimble. have been set for future meetings . but the at\racted opponents of the death penalty as The hanging passed witho ui formed to investigate the matter ts sti ll in its While the investigation primarily focuses on committee plans to meet several more times in well as family members of the complications Thursday morning, " preliminary" stages and doesn' t appear to have the safety of the windows, Butler said the the next few months. Lambertsons, who waited I 6 ye:us to see though, because Delaware sought made any significant findings in the investigation. commiu ee also plans to discuss the h andling of "We don't really have a set timetable for when Bailey die. instruction from the state of Maxine Colm, the university's vice president the situation by the adm inistrators involved. the investigatio n wil l be fini shed. but I would Two organizations, Delaware CillLens Washington, where the most recent of Employee Relations, was appointed committee " I don't really know if investigating is the right presume that we'll get it done in the next several Opposed to the Death Penalty and Pacem hangings occurred in 1993 and 1994. chair by David Hollowell. senior vice pr.:sident of word; it 's more like we're examining the months," Colm said. "Our major concern here is in Terris, organized rallies m Wi lmmgton In a successful hanging, the neck the university. Colm said the committee has met situation to see if everything was handled about the safety of students· lives ... and Dover to protest Bailey's hanging. breaks immediately, causing no pain to jus t twice in the four months since the fatal properly,'· Butler said. "We're going to have a The Keepers' family lawyer, Arnold Jabin , Dr. Sally Millbury-Steen. executive the prisoner. accident, and that as of yet there have been no few more meetings and try to come to some said the family has no pending litigation against director of Pacem In Terris. said both Problem can arise if a hanging i$ conclusions reached. cone 1usions." the university, but the family is still looking into rallies, though sparsely attended. were not carried out properly. According to a '·Right now we ' re still in the process of Colm said one issue the committee has things. important because they reminded briefing paper compiled by the ACLU. gathering data," Colm said. "We're trying to look resolved is th e safety codes of the Towe rs ·'I can' 1 di sclose any details of the case. but legislators they were accountable for the a drop that is too short can result in at this from a very broad perspective and taking building. there is nothing imminent.'. Jabin said. " We are protection of people's nghts. "Legislators death from gradual strangulation. and all the factors involved in the tragedy into "The one constant is that the East Tower investigating the si tuation thoroughly. and there become so buffered with the pro es they too long of a drop will cause the head account.'' passed the building inspection in 197 1 [when the is a possibility we may be taking action in the fo rget people's Jives are at stake,'' she said. to ripoff. Be ides Colm, the committee comprises Vice Towers opened]. and it would pass the inspection future.'' see EXECUTION page A4 see METHODS page A4 AG looks at SK hazing .. BY VANESSA ROTHSCHILD university j ud icial conviction of • Stfldeflf AIJmrs Editor two Kappa Alpha Order alumni for When you wish The university in vestigation into participating in the hazing incident. " the February 1994 hazing incident The convicted students have the involving a sexual assault that option to appeal their conviction or resulted in the loss of Sigma Kappa face a one year suspension from upon a Star... sorority's university chapter has the uni versity. bee n handed over to the Delaware It is unclear whether the two Attorney General. according to a lumni appealed their conviction. Next weekend freshman Star Behl will C a pt. Jim Flatley of University Dean of Students Timothy F. represent Delaware in the Miss USA pageant Police. The case in volved the recent see HAZING page A2 BY MICHAEL LEWIS accident, it appears that her current Manaxing Spmn Edunr status as Miss Delaware has been in the "Yes, that is my real name,'' is the works for years. Be hl has been a first thing Star Behl says when she gets fashion model since she was 14, and in Female student car on the phone for an interview. Right 1993 she was the third runner-up in the away, it's clear th is woman has been Miss Teen USA pageant. asked the questi o n about a millio n " I was a li ttle surprised that I did so jacked near the DU times before. well in the Miss Teen USA. and it gave Practi call y on cue, the 21-year-old me a lot of confidence," the Claymont university fres hman who will be native says. " It was one o f the first BY KELLY BROSNAHAN eating dinner, Flatley said . As she representing Delaware in next week's City Ne\t.'S £dour walked to her car just after 9:30 pageants I had ever emered.'' Miss USA pageant launches into her The pageant had an added benefit A female university student was p.m., between six and eight unknown the victim of a carjacking suspects in an unidentified four-door often-told explanation of her unusual for Behl; the scho larship money she moniker. recei vcd from the contest allowed her Wednesday night while walking to car yelled obscenities at her. " What happened was that my to begin school at the university in the her car in the Hollingsworth Lot, The woman quickly entered her across from the Do wn Under, car and attempted to start it , Flatley mother, thought she was going to give fall of 1994. me up for a doption , so s he didn 't University Police Capt. Jim Flatley said. Before she could lock the door, Currently rehearsing for the Feb. 2 bother to think of a name for me," the said.