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'Old Sparky' malfunctioned, causing six-inch flames to shoot out of Tafero's head. A member of the execution team had used a synthetic sponge rather than a sea sponge which is necessary to provide greater conductivity and a quick death. One close inmate friend of Tafero later said he could smell the burning flesh of his friend for days after.
(4 May 1990)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1988

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Pettit & Martin law firm

101 California Street, San Francisco, California, United States.

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Thursday 1st of July 1993 (-) — Mass murderer Gian Luigi Ferri commits suicide by a shot through the head
Ferri killed eight people and wounded six more in a shooting attack with a pair of TEC-9 handguns and a Norinco NP44 before he was closed in by the police. He claimed he had been poisoned by monosodium glutamate and that he had been 'raped' by Pettit & Martin and other firms.