brains out with a rock and burn her house down around
her. The crime for which he was executed was the rape
of a woman named Tacey Brady. Even then he was granted
a stay to investigate a claim of consensuality and was
even recommended to mercy on that account. But he
cooked his own goose when he confessed his past crimes
at an inopportune time and was therefore allowed to
swing when the stay expired.
Source: Box 107, Executive Papers of Governor
brains out with a rock and burn her house down around
her. The crime for which he was executed was the rape
of a woman named Tacey Brady. Even then he was granted
a stay to investigate a claim of consensuality and was
even recommended to mercy on that account. But he
cooked his own goose when he confessed his past crimes
at an inopportune time and was therefore allowed to
swing when the stay expired.
Source: Box 107, Executive Papers of Governor
brains out with a rock and burn her house down around
her. The crime for which he was executed was the rape
of a woman named Tacey Brady. Even then he was granted
a stay to investigate a claim of consensuality and was
even recommended to mercy on that account. But he
cooked his own goose when he confessed his past crimes
at an inopportune time and was therefore allowed to
swing when the stay expired.
Source: Box 107, Executive Papers of Governor
Jerry Hamilton July 12, 7s)
Offence: Rape
Location Hardy. Coc. GW Nai.)
Ex Date: 7-12-1799
Details: A white man, resident of Hampshire Co.
and a walking advertisement for the
death penalty, Hamilton was a chronic sex offender
who had previously been sentenced to hang at Winches-
ter VA for another rape in 1796 but had managed to
wrangle a pardon. According to his own confession,
his next move upon being released was to attack an
unidentified woman in her home, rape her, beat her
Jerry Hamilton july 12) WA99
Offence: Rape
Location: Hardy Co. .(W. Va.)
Ex Date: Palle /O9
Details: A white man, resident of Hampshire Co.
and a walking advertisement for the
death penalty, Hamilton was a chronic sex offender
who had previously been sentenced to hang at Winches-
ter VA for another rape in 1796 but had managed to
wrangle a pardon. According to his own confession,
his next move upon being released was to attack an
unidentified woman in her home, rape her, beat her
Jerry Hamilton July 12, 1799
Offence: Rape
Location: Hardy Co. (W. Va.)
Ex Date: 7-12-1799
Details: A white man, resident of Hampshire Co.
and a walking advertisement for the
death penalty, Hamilton was a chronic sex offender
who had previously been sentenced to hang at Winches-
ter VA for another rape in 1796 but had managed to
wrangle a pardon. According to his own confession,
his next move upon being released was to attack an
unidentified woman in her home, rape her, beat her
