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

Baltazar requested 'Cool Whip' and cherries but did not receive the food because the prison does not stock it.
(15 January 2003)

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

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Melbourne Gaol

Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Related events:

Thursday 11th of November 1880 (-) — Bushranger, outlaw and gang leader Ned Kelly is executed by hanging
Kelly's last words were "Ah, well, I suppose it has come to this".
Monday 24th of April 1922 (-) — Presumed murderer Colin Campbell Ross is executed by hanging
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.