Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 3 July 1991

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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Wednesday 3rd of July 1991
35 years, 0 months and 3 days ago

Sherri Ann Long aka Peggy Beth is strangled with her bra by serial killer Jack Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper at the age of 26 in Corral Canyon, Malibu, California, United States.