Pittsburgh, PA – Man Who Killed His Jewish Neighbor Gets Stay of Execution

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    Shooting spree suspect Richard Baumhammers, 34, center, is escorted from the Center Township (Pa.) Police Department on Friday. April 28, 2000, in Aliquippa, Pa., prior to his arraignment on charges resulting from a shooting spree in several suburban Pittsburgh communities that left five dead and a sixth critically wounded in what police are calling a racially-motivated shooting spree. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)Pittsburgh, PA – A judge has indefinitely delayed the execution of an unemployed white immigration attorney responsible for a Pittsburgh-area shooting rampage that eventually left six people dead.

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    Forty-four-year-old Richard Baumhammers, of Mount Lebanon, was scheduled to be executed March 18. But Allegheny County Judge Jeffrey Manning stayed that execution Friday after Baumhammers’ attorney filed notice of a new appeal.

    Gov. Ed Rendell signed a death warrant in January.

    Baumhammers shot his Jewish neighbor, two Indian men, a Chinese man, a Vietnamese man, and a black man on April 28, 2000.

    He was sentenced to death for the five victims who died outright. The sixth victim, 32-year-old Sandip Patel, of Plum, was left paralyzed and died of complications from pneumonia in 2007.


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    Ani Hakatan
    Ani Hakatan
    14 years ago

    Before anyone jumps to Grossman comparisions, this guy has has another sixteen years of appeals before the situations can resonably be compared.

    Ari
    Ari
    14 years ago

    Who is the governor there ? Let’s get 49,000 people to send emails to him to kill him !! Let’s not forget , we are for the death penalty for everyone else except for Martin Grossman !!

    Nuchem
    Nuchem
    14 years ago

    Sorry it can’t be comared to Grossman because he killed 6 people. Read the article!!

    To #1
    To #1
    14 years ago

    We are not for death penalty whether its a Jew, Christian, White, Black, Mexican. However, when its one of our boys we make a big deal. Just like if your own brother was in trouble!

    illdeals
    illdeals
    14 years ago

    This all means nothing. This happened in 2000. That means there is still another 15 years until this guy actually gets executed after we go thru all the appeals and othR red tape

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    The so called “death penalty” is not a deterent the way it is applied…..decades of appeals, and then calmly put to sleep. We need public hangings, and plenty of them.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Such cases show the need for the death penalty. Endless appeals are exploited by
    criminals with radical lawyers and liberal sentimentalists backing this insanity.

    Moshe
    Moshe
    14 years ago

    #1And those who think like him probably are Jews only in their heart therefore (without learning and observing the torah and mitzvahs) will never understand that according to the torah every life is precious, however to a save fellow Jew we have to do whatever in our power including spending our last penny even if it is not politically correct

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    An attorney? What’s the story here? I never heard of this case. It would appear this murderer is a racist, judging by the ethnic make-up of his victims.

    Yes, I signed the petition to save Martin Grossman. I was a proponent of the death penalty. Now I’m not so sure. I don’t know if I would sign one in favor of executing this piece of garbage.

    Dag
    Dag
    14 years ago

    Relax people. The judge made this decision… NOT the Governor. This is nothing like Grossman

    Okay, everyone
    Okay, everyone
    14 years ago

    For everyone who says they wouldn’t start a petition or write a letter for this guy because he killed a bunch of people, are you saying that you WILL do so the next time somebody is up for execution, and they only killed one, or they were drunk or stoned (not that Grossman was, there’s no evidence that he wasn’t totally sober) or there is a question about whether they did it, or whether it was premeditated? Will you bombard the governor and spread the word at your children’s schools?

    Let’s not be hypocritical!

    who ya kidding?
    who ya kidding?
    14 years ago

    I wasn’t for demanding Grossman not be executed, but this lowlife premeditated these murders and went on a murdering spree looking to murder lower races and religions than his own.
    Grossman viciously (while stoned)murdered the wildlife officer to escape arrest.
    No comparison at all.

    PMO
    PMO
    14 years ago

    It is important to note that Gov Rendell DID sign the order of execution in accordance with the sentence that was handed down. He is a liberal, and like most liberals, he is personally against the death penalty (typically conservatives are pro-death penalty). So even political persuasion does not matter. A conservative in FL or a liberal in PA… they follow the law which is what the people who elect them expect them to do.

    I actually commend the Gov for signing the order even thought it is against his personal beliefs. He understands his role.

    Grossman had his years of appeals too. It is a shame that yidden outside the small community that helped him only came to his aid in the final throws after there was no chance of saving him. *WE* failed him… not Gov. Crist, not the jurors who convicted him, not the judges who ruled against him on appeal… *WE* failed.

    The difference
    The difference
    14 years ago

    This was an achzoriosdiga calculated “planed” murder while in Grossman’s case it was a killing of young 19 year old high-school dropout (partial mentally ill) in an estate of panic.
    And remember: we did NOT ask for his release! Life in prison without parole is what we’ve asked for!!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Where is the voice of Chief Rabbi Metzger now? He must be busy with his boys.