Editing Billy Bailey (section)

{{Short description|American convicted murderer; last person to be hanged in the US}}
{{Other people}}
{{Infobox criminal
| name              = Billy Bailey
| image_name        = Billy_Bailey.png
| image_size        = 
| image_caption     = Bailey at his clemency hearing
| birth_date        = 1946
| birth_place       = [[South Carolina]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{Death date|1996|01|25}} (aged 49)<ref>[https://doc.delaware.gov/views/executions.blade.shtml] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101020114550/http://doc.delaware.gov/information/deathrow_executions.shtml |date=2010-10-20 }} ''State of Delaware Department of Corrections''. Accessed December 8, 2008.</ref>
| death_place       = [[James T. Vaughn Correctional Center]], [[New Castle County, Delaware]], U.S.
| cause             = [[Execution by hanging]]
| alias             = 
| charge            = 
| conviction        = [[Murder (United States law)|First degree murder]] (2 counts)<br>[[Robbery|First degree robbery]]<br>[[Forgery]]<br>[[Criminal possession of a weapon|Possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony]] (2 counts)<br>[[Criminal possession of a weapon|Possession of a weapon by a prohibited person]]
| criminal_penalty  = [[Capital punishment in Delaware|Death by hanging]] (1980)
| criminal_status   = [[Executed]]
| victims           = Gilbert Lambertson, 80<br>Clara Lambertson, 73
| date              = June 12, 1979
| country           = [[United States]]
| states            = [[Delaware]]
| motive            = [[Robbery]]
}}

'''Billy Bailey''' (1946 – January 25, 1996) was a convicted [[murder|murderer]] who was [[hanged]] in [[Delaware]] in 1996. He became the third person to be hanged in the United States since 1965 (the previous two were [[Charles Rodman Campbell]] and [[Westley Allan Dodd]], both in [[Washington (state)|Washington]]), and the first person hanged in Delaware in 50 years.<ref name="women"/><ref name="nytimes">{{cite news|title=Killer of 2 Is Hanged In Delaware as Kin Of Victims Watch|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 26, 1996|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/26/us/killer-of-2-is-hanged-in-delaware-as-kin-of-victims-watch.html|accessdate=December 8, 2008|archive-url=https://archive.today/20211211095056/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/26/us/killer-of-2-is-hanged-in-delaware-as-kin-of-victims-watch.html|archive-date=December 11, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> As of 2025, he remains the last person to be lawfully executed by hanging in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Methods of Execution: Hanging|url=https://deathpenaltycurriculum.org/student/c/about/methods/hanging.htm|access-date=2020-06-23|website=deathpenaltycurriculum.org|archive-date=2022-01-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102220733/https://deathpenaltycurriculum.org/student/c/about/methods/hanging.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>