Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 13 March 1933

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Ross was executed in a particularly gruesome manner. Authorities had decided to experiment with a four-stranded rope rather than the usual three-stranded European hemp. The four-stranded rope did not run freely through the noose and Ross did not die immediately because his spinal cord was fractured, not severed. Although his windpipe was torn and obstructed by his destroyed larynx the condemned man continued with rasping breaths and convulsed on the rope. Three times Ross bent his knees and flexed his arms before succumbing, slowly strangled to death by asphyxiation.
(24 April 1922)

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BirthFactDeath (+) Monday 13th of March 1933 93 years, 1 months and 27 days ago
Serial killer Donald Henry Gaskins aka Pee Wee Gaskins aka the Meanest Man in America is born as Donald Henry Parrott in Florence County, South Carolina, United States. Gaskins was small for his age and immediately gained the nickname 'Pee Wee'.