During the time Henry was being tried Louisiana changed its method of execution from hanging to death by electrocution. Henry was executed within the basement of the Lake Charles Prison in Louisiana's portable electric chair which had been brought by truck from Angola the previous day. Henry was the only woman executed in Louisiana's electric chair. (28 November 1942)
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Sunday 14th of February 1779 (-) — Explorer, navigator, cartographer and captain James Cook is struck on the head and stabbed to death by native villagers Cook's body was disembowelled, baked to facilitate removal of the flesh, and the bones were carefully cleaned for preservation as religious icons.