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Bucklew had argued for months that the death penalty would qualify as cruel and unusual punishment due to blood-filled tumours that had grown in his head, neck and throat. He argued that a tumour on his neck could burst when given lethal injection and cause him to choke on his own blood.
(1 October 2019)
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BirthFactDeath (x) Saturday 28th of May 1977 48 Years Ago |
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 165 Die in Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Beverly Hills Supper Club, Southgate, Kentucky, United States. "When I got to the inside doors, which is about 30 feet inside the building, I saw these big double doors, and people were stacked like cordwood. They were clear up to the top. They just kept diving out on each other trying to get out. I looked back over the pile of – it wasn't dead people, there were dead and alive in that pile – and I went in and I just started to grab them two at a time and pull them off the stack, and drag them out..." More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills_Supper_Club_fire |
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