Related events:

1. Friday 2nd of September 1983 (-) — Child killer Jimmy Lee Gray is executed by the gas chamber
   The gas chamber used in Mississippi had a vertical iron bar directly behind the inmate's chair. There was no headrest or strap used to restrain Gray's head. As Gray began breathing in the toxic gas he started thrashing his head around, striking the iron bar repeatedly before he finally lost consciousness. "Gray died banging his head against a steel pole in the gas chamber while reporters counted his moans" (eleven according to the Associated Press).

2. Tuesday 5th of January 1999 (-) — Serial killer Donald Leroy Evans is stabbed to death in the shower by 29-year-old fellow death row inmate Jimmy Mack
   

3. Wednesday 14th of December 2005 (-) — Murderer John Nixon is executed by lethal injection
   Nixon's last meal request was for a well-done T-bone steak, buttered asparagus spears, a baked potato with sour cream, peach pie, vanilla ice cream and sweet tea.

4. Wednesday 17th of November 2021 (-) — Murderer David Cox is executed by lethal injection
   Cox had abandoned all appeals and filed court papers calling himself “worthy of death”.