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When the time came for prison officers to transport Rudd from death row to the execution chamber he resisted. Officers used pepper gas to control Rudd and he gave no further trouble. Rudd kept his promise to refuse his last meal.
(15 November 2001)
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BirthFactDeath (-) Sunday 28th of August 1955 69 years ago He Made Physical and Verbal Advances |
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 Black Emmett Louis Till aka Bobo lynched for offending white 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant in her family's grocery store four days before at the age of 14 in Money, Mississippi, United States.  Till was abducted and beaten and mutilated before being shot in the head and his body thrown in the Tallahatchie River. Tens of thousands attended Till's funeral or viewed his open casket and images of his mutilated body were published in black-oriented magazines and newspapers. In September 1955 an all-white jury found Carolyn's 24-year-old husband Roy Bryant and his 34-year-old half-brother John William Milam not guilty of Till's kidnapping and murder. |
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