Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 23 February 1885

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

Brooks was the first person in the United States to be executed using lethal injection by a mixture of Sodium Thipental aka Thruth Drug, Pancuronum Bromide and Potassium Chloride. Brooks' last meal request was for a T-bone steak, french fries, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, biscuits, peach cobbler and iced tea.
(7 December 1982)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3359 births, 3910 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (x) Monday 23rd of February 1885 139 years ago They Couldn't Hang Him
21-year-old murderer John Lee aka Babbacombe Lee aka The Man They Couldn't Hang is brought upon the scaffold three times to be hanged but the trapdoor refuses to open upon each attempt despite being carefully tested by executioner James Berry in Exeter Prison, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom. Lee continued to petition successive Home Secretaries and was finally released in 1907.