Last Man Hanging

details of the account remain covered until revealed His mother died when he was six months old, and the family lived in a two-room shack with no plumbing that a welfare agency described as utter filth and poverty. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

He left with a sixth-grade education, five foot five and about 220 pounds. His record began in 1967 with disorderly conduct, after he ran down a Dover street carrying a rifle, followed by grand larceny and, in 1968, burglary of a Dover home. In 1970 he married nineteen-year-old Susan Hughes and they lived in a trailer with their baby daughter Christine. details of the account remain covered until revealed His wife left in 1979 after he threatened to kill her and her parents. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

On May 21st, 1979, he walked away from the Plummer Center in Wilmington at one in the afternoon and turned up at the Cokers' trailer with a bottle of vodka, saying he was not going back. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed He knocked her down, beat at the drawer and fired at her; the pistol clicked. He grabbed what cash was loose and left with a bottle in one hand and a .25 calibre pistol in the other. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

this part of the story is covered for now Lambertson and his wife Clara, seventy-three, had been married fifty-six years, farmed sixty-seven acres, and were described as quiet, god-fearing people who never bothered a soul. details of the account remain covered until revealed He took the twelve-gauge shotgun Gilbert kept by the door, sat them in their chairs and shot them both with the shotgun and the pistol. Gilbert was hit in the hand, chest and cheek and then in the face at close range, which took away half his head; Clara was shot from behind in the shoulder, then the abdomen and the neck. The medical examiner said any of the wounds could have been fatal. Their daughter-in-law Marianne, picking strawberries across the street, saw a short, stocky man leave with a shotgun and went in to find them dead in the living room.

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this part of the story is covered for now Interviewed in January 1996, he claimed he had been drinking and taking pills all day and remembered nothing, but said he felt it was his fault. details of the account remain covered until revealed On January 25th, 1996, he ate a last meal of well done steak, baked potato, buttered rolls, peas and vanilla ice cream and was walked up twenty-three steps to the gallows. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now He was the last man hanged in the United States.