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Convicted Murderer Danelo Cavalcante Has Been Arrested In Pennsylvania Two Weeks After Jail Escape. He's Also Wanted In Brazil For Another Killing (Video)

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 13, 2023 at 9:30am

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POTTSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — An escaped murderer was captured Wednesday after eluding hundreds of searchers for 2 weeks, bringing relief to anxious residents of southeastern Pennsylvania who endured sleepless nights as he hid in the woods, broke into suburban homes for food, changed his appearance & fled under gunfire with a rifle pilfered from a garage.

Authorities used thermal imaging from aircraft to pinpoint a possible location & then used ground forces to capture escaped inmate Danelo Souza Cavalcante.

Aerial video footage showed a handcuffed man in a gravel lot & wearing a grey, long-sleeve shirt with law enforcement officers holding both arms. Later, the man stands at the back of an armored vehicle while an officer cuts the back of the shirt from neck to waist.

The end to the search for Cavalcante, 34, unfolded just beyond Philadelphia’s suburbs, in an area of woods, rolling farmland & a county park. The search forced schools to close, led to warnings for homeowners to lock their doors & blocked roads.

Cavalcante escaped from the Chester County jail in southeastern Pennsylvania on Aug. 31 by crab-walking up between 2 walls that were topped with razor wire, then jumping from the roof & dashing away. He had been awaiting transfer to state prison after being sentenced days earlier for fatally stabbing his girlfriend & is wanted in connection with another killing in Brazil.

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WTF? Killer To Inherit Half A Million Dollars From Mother In Law He Murdered After His Wife Commits Suicide [Video]

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on January 4, 2011 at 7:43pm

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A young Long Island man who brutally murdered his mother-in-law "is not profiting from her death," his lawyer insisted yesterday, even though the killer stands to collect nearly a half-million dollars from the slain woman's estate as early as this week.

Brandon Palladino's lawyer said the 24-year-old rightfully inherited the money from his wife, Deanna Palladino, who died of an overdose last year.

Deanna was willed the fortune by her mother, Dianne Edwards, 59, whom Palladino choked to death in 2008 when she came home and caught him stealing her jewelry.

Deanna was suspected of conspiring in the theft but was never charged.

"He would be the only heir, because they didn't have any children," Palladino's lawyer, Ray Perini, said.

Deanna loved her husband "dearly and supported him until she died. He's not profiting from [Edwards'] death. The money passed to his wife, and it was hers to do with as she wanted."

Brandon will get a check for up to $500,000 as soon as this week, sources said yesterday.

"Morally, it really shocks the conscience. He shouldn't get a dime!" said Edwards family lawyer Dennis Lemke.

"It's a tough pill to swallow, but action is extremely unlikely to be successful [under current state law]," Lemke said.

Palladino, who admitted to the crime in exchange for a plea deal, is set to be sentenced to just 5 to 25 years next week.

"Perhaps the murderer's family will have a conscience and return the estate to the proper owners -- the family of the victim," Lemke said.

A source said that a Suffolk prosecutor asked him to give up his inheritance as part of the plea bargain and that Palladino refused.

The total estate was estimated at about $680,000 -- $581,000 after debts, according to sources and court documents.

Deanna Palladino received her mom's $190,000 in savings after her death, sources said. She used most of it to bankroll her husband's defense.

The victim's five-bedroom Melville home was sold in November for $340,000.

After debts, the profit from the sale of the home came to $241,000. The slain woman's personal property was estimated at about $150,000.

"It doesn't make sense. He can't profit from this," insisted Donna Larsen, the sister of the murdered woman.

"He robbed her before he murdered her, and now he's robbing her again after her death," said Larsen's husband, Andy.

FAMILY CURSE: Brandon Palladino, the husband of Deanna Palladino (left), killed her mom, Dianne Edwards (right, beside her first husband), and because Deanna committed suicide last year, he is next in line to inherit Edwards' half-million dollar estate

Source : New York Post

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Is a second execution attempt cruel and unusual for convicted rapist and murderer ?

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 19, 2009 at 5:52am

A lethal-injection team tried for about two hours to find a usable vein, then gave up. Romell Broom, a convicted rapist-murderer, says another try would be unconstitutional. LA Times Reports As executioners poked his limbs with an IV needle, Romell Broom initially tried to speed along his own demise, flexing his arm and tugging on a rubber tourniquet to better expose a vein on the inside of his elbow. But as prison workers repeatedly failed to find a vein strong enough to take the lethal injections, the convicted rapist-murderer began to despair over his protracted end. Witnesses and the execution-team log from Tuesday describe how the 53-year-old winced and cried as a shunt inserted in his leg also failed to open a pathway for the fatal drugs. Two hours and 23 minutes after it started, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland halted the execution and scheduled a second attempt for a week later. The aborted execution has renewed concerns about lethal injection, and raises the question of whether a second execution attempt would violate the 8th Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.

Bessye Middleton holds a painting of her daughter, Tryna, who was raped and fatally stabbed by Romell Broom on Sept. 21, 1984. The 14-year-old was walking home after a football game. On Friday, one of Broom's attorneys filed lawsuits in state and federal court alleging that another execution attempt would violate Broom's civil rights. U.S. District Judge Gregory L. Frost issued a temporary restraining order putting off the attempt for at least 10 days. The attorney, Tim Sweeney, also appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case. Only once before has a state's execution failed, legal scholars say. In 1946, 17-year-old Willie Francis walked away from Louisiana's "Gruesome Gertie" electric chair after a 2,500-volt current coursed through his body. "The issue with Willie Francis was, can you re-execute him, or would that be cruel and unusual punishment or double jeopardy?" said Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor and death penalty expert. A divided high court decided in 1947 that Louisiana could lawfully subject Francis to execution again. A second electrocution killed him a year and three days after the first attempt. "But so many aspects of that case are so outdated or so specific to Willie Francis and that time that even though it is entrenched precedent with the U.S. Supreme Court and frequently cited, one would look at the Broom case very differently," said Denno, whose writings on execution methods were cited by the U.S. Supreme Court majority in last year's decision upholding the constitutionality of lethal injection in Kentucky. "I think we're in a new day in our treatment of human beings," said Richard Dieter, executive director of the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. "To subject someone to being at the brink of death, then yank them back because the state couldn't carry out its own procedures . . . suggests the whole lethal injection process is in need of further review," said Dieter, who has expressed views against capital punishment. The Supreme Court took what some analysts saw as a narrow look at lethal injection in the Kentucky case, Baze vs. Rees. The state had carried out only one other execution in recent years and, as in the Francis decision, the court found no pattern of flaws with methods. Other states held off on executions until the justices in April 2008 ruled lethal injection a humane means of execution if carried out correctly. All 35 states that allow the death penalty use a similar -- though not identical -- three-drug process. It is often administered by corrections officers rather than doctors because the American Medical Assn. advises against physician participation in executions. Death penalty opponents say the Broom incident should at least compel Ohio to impose a moratorium on executions and review the procedures. "Ohio has a history here. It's not just him. He's the third guy in three years where we've had essentially variations on the same problem," said Jeff Gamso, volunteer attorney and former legal director for the ACLU of Ohio. He was referring to the executions of Joseph Clark in 2006 and Christopher Newton in 2007 in which prison workers took more than an hour and two hours, respectively, to kill the inmates because of trouble locating veins. Some legal scholars said they expected little legal consequence from the Ohio incident. "This certainly put someone through anxiety and stress, but whether that rises to cruel and unusual punishment -- I doubt the Supreme Court at the end of the day would agree with that," said John Eastman, dean of the Chapman University School of Law in Orange Robert Weisberg, a Stanford University law professor and director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, said public opinion has been little affected by previous cases where executions were botched. What is likely to happen, he said, is an incremental backing off from capital punishment because of the costs, delays and mounting concerns about executing the innocent. Last year, 37 people were executed nationwide, the lowest number in 14 years, partly because of states' review of execution procedures. And 111 death sentences were issued, compared with more than 300 a year in the mid-1990s. Since 1973, 135 people have been exonerated and freed from death rows, five of them this year. Weisberg said California is a prime example of a state that retains a death penalty in theory yet rarely conducts executions despite having the nation's biggest death row, with 685 condemned prisoners. In California, executions have been on hold since early 2006: Lethal injections have failed to fully anesthetize inmates in six of the 13 executions conducted in the state since capital punishment resumed in 1976.

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Convicted Murderer Danelo Cavalcante Has Been Arrested In Pennsylvania Two Weeks After Jail Escape. He's Also Wanted In Brazil For Another Killing (Video)

WTF? Killer To Inherit Half A Million Dollars From Mother In Law He Murdered After His Wife Commits Suicide [Video]

Is a second execution attempt cruel and unusual for convicted rapist and murderer ?

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