Spenkelink's last meal request was for two swigs of Jack Daniels. After the execution, unfounded rumors spread that the fighting, shouting Spenkelink was dragged to the electric chair, gagged, beaten and had his neck broken. (25 May 1979)
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Saturday 30th of September 1978 (x) — Victim of Lawrence Singleton Mary Vincent is raped and mutilated by Lawrence Singleton aka . Singleton raped Vincent and then severed both her forearms with a hatchet and threw her off a 30-foot cliff, leaving her naked and near death. She managed to pull herself back up the cliff and alert a passerby who took her to a hospital.