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

Woods may have miscalculated the lengths for the ropes used for the executions such that some of the men did not die quickly of an intended broken neck but instead strangled to death slowly. Additionally the trapdoor was too small such that several of the condemned suffered bleeding head injuries when they hit the sides of the trapdoor while dropping through.
(16 October 1946)

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

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Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

Related events:

Friday 15th of September 1950 (-) — Child trafficker Georgia Tann dies of uterine cancer.
Tann is estimated to have stolen and sold over 5.000 children while she was workings as the Executive Secretary at the Shelby County branch of the Tennessee Children's Home Society.
Monday 6th of June 1966 (x) — American Civil Rights Movement figure James Meredith is shot at by Aubrey James Norvell in an assassination attempt during the civil rights March Against Fear.
Thursday 14th of August 1969 (-) — Victim of George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer Roy Dumas is strangled by George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer.
Friday 29th of August 1969 (-) — Victim of George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer Glenda Harden is stabbed to death by George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer.
Thursday 11th of August 2005 (x) — School shooter Mitchell Johnson is released from prison after serving 7 years.