Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 4 October 1992

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

Ross was executed in a particularly gruesome manner. Authorities had decided to experiment with a four-stranded rope rather than the usual three-stranded European hemp. The four-stranded rope did not run freely through the noose and Ross did not die immediately because his spinal cord was fractured, not severed. Although his windpipe was torn and obstructed by his destroyed larynx the condemned man continued with rasping breaths and convulsed on the rope. Three times Ross bent his knees and flexed his arms before succumbing, slowly strangled to death by asphyxiation.
(24 April 1922)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Sunday 4th of October 1992 34 years, 8 months and 4 days ago
The grave of 68-year-old comedian and actor Benny Hill is robbed following rumours that he was buried with large amounts of gold jewellery in Hollybrook Cemetary, Shirley Warren, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom. As a security measure, a 1-foot-thick concrete slab was placed over Hill's grave.