The Republican Crusade for the Delaware Death Penalty

What can fire up a normally sedate group of  Delaware Republican Legislators with a call to action, this, even, during the Legislative off season?

Other than an attempt to take away the right to bear arms by the gun control crowd, it would be the taking away of the death penalty. This will solicit a (normally sedate) riotous group of Republicans who are otherwise subservient to the Legislative whims of Senator Blevins and her posse. 

Last week, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled the state's death penalty law is unconstitutional. The top court said the capital punishment statute violates the U.S. Constitution by giving judges, and not juries, the final say to impose a death sentence. 

In other words, if a jury does not feel right about a verdict that would put someone to death, a Judge should and would not be allowed to supersede the decision, and sentence the person to death.

Delaware was one of only two other states that allowed a Judge such discretion, Alabama being the other.

My purpose in this blog is not to be either for or against the death penalty. 

I would like to address and ask the 15 of the 25 Republican State Legislators who have vowed to fight to get their death penalty up to constitutional speed, and have it back on the books, a question.

But before doing so, allow me to share my own personal experience with losing a family member to (vehicular) homicide -  

I was only two years old when my 17 year old brother was killed by a drunk driver. He was the MVP of his football team, well loved by all who knew him; he had just taken his girlfriend home after a date when the drunk driver slammed into his white Corvair, killing him instantly. My mother was working as a nurse at the hospital the night they brought his lifeless body to the hospital. She saw her first born son laying there with his neck broken and with his face badly disfigured. 

My mother would suffer a nervous breakdown and would never be the same. My father would drift off into alcoholism. I would know him only through the memory of others.

The individual responsible for his death would only receive 6 months in prison before they were released.

My heart goes out to the families who have lost their loved one at the hands of another, and the anger that it kindles deep inside toward the perpetrator.

Mr. and Ms. Republican Delaware State Legislators - Your Criminal Justice system is plagued to the core with both misfeasance and malfeasance. 

- There is an admitted pedophile judge who for over 30 years was allowed to sexually molest little boys, but the one victim who successfully brought suit against the monster had to fight his way through the protectors of the system in the Delaware Attorney Generals's Office, who , I might add refused to criminally investigate the Judge. He was allowed to retire from the bench with no prosecution and no sex offender registry.

- The Delaware Forensics Division continues to spiral downward as the recently appointed Director Michael Wolf resigned, his reasons:

"Wolf quietly resigned in late July – and told The News Journal he did so because the state of Delaware has failed to provide the staffing and resources that are essential to running the division.
The lack of funding has left the lab, marred by evidence thefts and mismanagement in 2014, struggling to keep up with rising rates of homicides, rapes and drug deaths, especially those caused by heroin and Fentanyl, according to the division's 2015 annual report (Jessica Reyes, Delaware News-Journal.  August 6, 2016)."

These examples are just the tip of the iceberg regarding your broken system

On a national level -
156 Death Row inmates have now been exonerated.The time time spent on death row ranging from one year to thirty-nine years

Time Magazine conducted a study and determined as many 120 of the 3,000 individuals currently on death row are in all probability innocent. That's 120 innocent human beings who are scheduled to be put to death. If we scale that down to the 13 people currently on Delaware's death row, that would be roughly one of them being a wrongfully convicted innocent man.

That one (theoretically) wrongfully convicted death row inmate might take on greater significance if it were the son or daughter of one of the fifteen Republican State Legislators.

 Here’s the first line of a Washington Post story about Glenn Ford, who was exonerated last month:

“My sons, when I left, was babies,” Louisiana’s longest-serving death row inmate told reporters after his release late Tuesday. “Now they’re grown men with babies.”

Suddenly you realize and the question hits you as you reflect on this mans story, this man who lost his family, who spent decades in some awful cell believing he was going to be electrocuted. And then you think that other frightening thought: How many other Glenn Fords are still behind bars? How many will die there? Just how often does our venerated justice system fail?

If one loses a family member to homicide, or as a wrongfully convicted victim who is put to death by the state, both are equally wrong, devastating and unacceptable to we who adhere to the rule of law in our society.
Currently, Delaware lags behind many other states, who have adopted the following measures to help safeguard against wrongful convictions:

Eye Witness Identification Reform Policy:
Delaware has no statewide eyewitness identification reform policy.

Recorded Interrogations Policy:

Delaware has no state law requiring recorded interrogations.

Post Conviction DNA Testing:
Defendants convicted of crimes in Delaware may apply for DNA testing using newly developed technologies (including Y-STR and mitochondrial). Effective: 2000. However, this option is very much under utilized.

Preservation of Evidence:

Delaware has no state law requiring preservation of evidence.

Exoneree Compensation:
Delaware has no exoneree compensation law.



Mr. and Ms. Republican  State Legislator - To help prevent wrongful convictions, start working to reform all aspects of the criminal justice system in a comprehensive fashion (death penalty included) and maybe, just maybe, I would feel better about your death penalty crusade and have a little more respect for you as "Lawmakers".

The Unfolding Story of DE DOJ Protecting a Pedophile Judge From Prosecution

I have just finished reading exhaustive legal filings and other documentation that details a child's sexual abuse by the Delaware Black Robed Pedophile, (Former) Judge William Bradley.
I feel sick, not just from reading how this monster perpetuated his evil upon a child who had been bounced around in foster homes all of his life, but also from the subsequent ignoring of and attempts to cover up this most disgusting crime. There could be, and in all probability, are many, many more child victims.

Why would the Delaware Attorney General's Office conduct themselves in such an unjust manner?
This story was attempting to see the light of day at the same time the Dr. Bradley (Pediatrician Pedophile) case was reaching its peak. Politically, this would have proven not only embarrassing, but disastrous for the Delaware power elite. This Judge (former Legal Counsel for Governor) was allowed to molest little boys for over  30 years, with the latest alleged incident being as late as 2008.

I am not at liberty to go into detail regarding the specificity of  the action germinating under the surface, but am hopeful that, in the next few days, official steps will betaken to bring this Black Robed  Monster, and those within the corrupt system of Delaware, to justice and accountability. It is our goal also for any other child victims to come forward as well.

As I did in a previous blog, I included this one and only bit of media coverage of the Judges admission of molesting an 11 year old boy. There was otherwise a media blackout.


WILMINGTON -- Standing in front of the building where William C. Bradley Jr. had been a judge until last week, attorneys Thursday handed out a one-page, two-sentence statement from the former jurist admitting he molested an 11-year-old boy more than 30 years ago.
The statement signed by Bradley and handed out on the steps of the New Castle Courthouse on Thursday reads: "On or about the evening of Dec. 28, 1975 and Dec. 29, 1975, while present in my home located in Townsend, Delaware, I molested Gregory Kelly, then age 11, through inappropriate sexual contact. I deeply regret any harm I have caused to Gregory Kelly and his family."
For Gregory Kelly, now 44, it was the vindication he has been seeking for decades.

More than 20 years ago he told his family about the incident and about 12 years ago unsuccessfully tried to get the Delaware Attorney General's Office to investigate, he said.

Then in April 2009, Kelly filed his civil lawsuit through the Delaware Child Victims Act on his own after several Delaware attorneys declined to take up the suit against a sitting judge.

"This case should serve as a model of courage and persistence for all victims of crime, especially sex crimes," said Brian D. Kent, a Philadelphia attorney who agreed to represent Kelly in federal court after the suit was filed. "He was determined to seek justice for the heinous actions perpetrated against him as a young boy. And he has been successful."

Judith Miller, the Delaware coordinator for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, called Thursday's news a "tremendous victory."

"Greg never gave up despite all kinds of obstacles," she said. "I just applaud Greg's determination and his courage."
Both he and his Attorney were threatened by the "Justice" establishment of Delaware.

To my Delaware Friends - this Admitted Pedophile Judge of 30years was allowed to retire with your very generous tax payer money. He received no criminal investigation, charge, nor any treatment. whatsoever The AG simply paid off the one (sole) civil lawsuit and snuffed out the voices of any other victims of this monster they enabled. Contact AG Office: 302-577-8400, Gov Markell: 302-577-3210 and your local Legislator and express your disgust at the way this case was handled and demand it be readdressed.