Canton man receives death penalty
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January 28, 2010
Danielle Hale
Five-year old Macy Mammone and three-year old James Mammone IV were brutally killed by their father, James Mammone III, on June 8, 2009, when he stabbed to death his only children, and then shot and killed his former mother-in-law, Margaret Eakin, in Canton.
Police searched for Mammone for three hours, and then found his car parked in the parking lot of the apartment building where he lived. The children were in the back seat with stab marks on their throat, dead.
Earlier that day, he had picked the children up for visitation rights. By Monday morning at 6 a.m. the police were called to the scene when reports of shots fired were reported at the mother-in-law’s home.
“He was actually very cooperative with us at the time we took him into custody,” Canton Chief of Police Dean McKimm said. “He didn’t give us any real resistance.”
Mammone was then taken to Stark County jail with a bond of $15 million.
Mammone faced three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated burglary, three firearm specifications and single counts of violating a protection order and attempted arson. He was found guilty on all charges.
Mammone gave two reasons for his actions: to get back at his ex-wife and to save them from a broken home. Mammone had grown up with divorced parents and didn’t want them to experience it.
On Jan. 22, Judge John G. Haas set the execution date for Mammone to be June 5, 2010- one year after the killings. When the decision was made public, ex-wife Marcia Eakin had a smirk. She informed her ex-husband that he didn’t destroy her life.
“I’m strong. I inspire people. I’ll charge forward. I will smile again. I’m in love again,” Marcia Eakin said. “You may have destroyed a part of my life. But you did not destroy me. Soon, the world will be rid of you.”
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