Holmes' neck did not snap; he instead was strangled to death slowly, twitching over 15 minutes before being pronounced dead 20 minutes after the trap had been sprung. (7 May 1896)
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Thursday 15th of July 1971 (-) — Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Petra Schelm is shot dead by the police after escaping from a road-block. Schelm's companion Werner Hoppe was arrested minutes later. Schelm was the first member of the Rote Armee Fraktion to be killed by the German police.