Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States

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

On the day of his execution Wilkerson refused to leave his cell at the Terrell Unit prison near Livingston. Guards were forced to use Mace-like gas and carry him to and from the death van that took him to the Hunstville Unit. After the drugs were administered Wilkerson spit out an inch-and-a-half universal handcuff and leg restraint key.
(14 March 2000)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

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Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Monday 23rd of May 1910 (+) — Abstract expressionist painter Franz Kline is born.
Friday 26th of July 1940 (+) — Political campaign specialist for Robert F. Kennedy Mary Jo Kopechne is born.
Monday 22nd of June 1942 (+) — Spree killer George Banks is born.
Saturday 25th of September 1982 (x) — Spree killer George Banks shoots 13 people including three of his girlfriends and five of his children to death with a Colt AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
Banks said he killed his children because he felt they would be tormented by the cruelty of racial views against mixed-race children. Since his conviction Banks has tried to kill himself four times and has gone on hunger strikes that required him to be force-fed.