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Ohio Supreme Court to decide whether execution survivor can be killed In 1947, Louisiana executed 18-year-old Willie Francis by electric chair a year after an improperly prepared electric chair failed to kill the teen. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to allow the second execution to proceed, rejecting double-jeopardy arguments.
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Dead People Server Piloted his plane into the Atlantic, and died along with his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and his sister-in-law Lauren Bessette. Started a glitzy political magazine, George (also dead), assisted dozens of foundations with fundraising. IMDb Robert F. Kennedy (senator) -- Dead.ied June 15, 2014. Born April 27, 1932. Voice actor on many cartoons, voiced Shaggy on most Scooby Doo incarnations, host of the long-running radio show American Top 40, always signed off with Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars, died same day as Daniel Keyes.
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Sheila Jackson-Lee: Constitution Gives Me Immunity to Discriminate Against the Disabled Sheila Jackson-Lee is one of the dumbest people in America and the fourth dumbest person in Congress. Daniel Greenfield. A judge has refused to dismiss a federal lawsuit accusing Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of discriminating against and mocking a disabled staffer — charges the Texas Democrat denies.
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Medical Mystery: Only One Person Has Survived Rabies without Vaccine--But How? Medical Mystery: Only One Person Has Survived Rabies without Vaccine--But How? Four years after she nearly died from rabies, Jeanna Giese is being heralded as the first person known to have survived the virus without receiving a preventative vaccine. But Giese (pronounced Gee-See) says she would gladly share that honor with others if only doctors could show that the treatment used to save her could spare other victims as well.
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Judith Resnik Judith Resnik. About The second American female astronaut and the first American Jewish astronaut, who died tragically in the Challenger explosion. She previously had been a part of mission aboard the Discovery. She logged 145 hours in space as mission specialist on the maiden voyage of Space Shuttle Discovery, two years before the Challenger accident.
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First execution by electric chair First execution by electric chair. Share this: At Auburn Prison in New York, the first execution by electrocution in history is carried out against William Kemmler, who had been convicted of murdering his lover, Matilda Ziegler, with an axe.
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- Did You Know? The only person to serve less time in the White House than James Garfield was William Henry Harrison, America's ninth president. Several weeks after his March 4, 1841, inauguration, Harrison caught a cold that turned into pneumonia. He died on April 4, after just a month in office.
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'Ailing' Buzz Aldrin in Emergency Evacuation from South Pole The International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators confirmed Aldrin's evacuation, saying he was stable when he was taken from the South Pole to McMurdo base in Antarctica. Aldrin, 86, was the second man to walk on the moon as part of the 1969 Apollo 11 crew.
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Smart TV A smart TV device is either a television set with integrated Internet capabilities or a set-top box for television that offers more advanced
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- Georgia's highest court struck down the state's use of the electric chair on October 5th, 2001 on the basis that death by electrocution inflicts purposeless physical violence and needless mutilation that makes no measurable contribution to accepted goals of punishment.''
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- Edison's only original invention was the ELECTRIC CHAIR!! As we stated, Edison was a general in the Battle of the Currents which pitted Edison and Morgan against Nicola Tesla and George Westinghouse. He called AC KILLER CURRENT and he set out to prove it by killing a man with an electric chair powered by AC.odern day version of the electric chair. On August 6, 1890, William Kemmler was the first man to die in the electric chair. The first application of current was botched and Kemmler did not die until the current was fired up a second time.
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- Gertrude Ederle, who was called ''America's best girl'' by President Calvin Coolidge in 1926 after she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel, died yesterday at a nursing home in Wyckoff, N.J. She was 98.
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Tag Archives: Dental Inventors Dr. Alfred P. Southwick – Inventor of the Electric Chair. This invention is definitely on the bizarre side. Dentist Alfred Southwick saw a drunken man accidentally shock himself to death in 1881. This inspired him to invent the electric chair, which he figured would be a better alternative to hanging because it would be quick and painless (insert “going to the dentist” pun).
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Last survivor of The Great Escape prisoner-of-war camp dies, aged 92 A grandfather believed to be the last survivor of The Great Escape prisoner-of-war camp has died aged 92. RAF serviceman Richard Birtle was captured during the trial run for the D-Day landings in Dieppe, France, in August 1942 before being incarcerated in the notorious Stalag III camp.
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This Man Who Survived a Suicide Attempt Explains What He Thought the Second He Jumped And what it's like to be in the one percent of people who survive the fall from the Golden Gate Bridge. As part of BuzzFeed's Mental Health Week, Kevin Hines, a man who survived his suicide attempt of jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, shared his story.
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America's first female astronaut Sally Ride dies America's first female astronaut Sally Ride dies. Sally Ride, who blazed trails into orbit as the first American woman in space, died Monday of pancreatic cancer. She was 61. Ride died at her home in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla, said Terry McEntee, a spokeswoman for her company, Sally Ride Science. She was a private person and the details of her illness were kept to just a few people, she said.
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It's Harder Not To Katharine Johnson, longtime platonic friend of Nikola Tesla. From an 1896 New York Herald interview:  I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of his brain unfolding to success, as he watches some crucial experiment prove that through months of waiting and hoping he has been in the right.
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Buzz Aldrin nearly died at the South Pole. Why he insists âit was worth it, really.â Buzz Aldrin, the former NASA astronaut, was medically evacuated from the South Pole, where he was visiting as part of a tourist group. (Adam Bettcher/Getty Images for WE ) For most people, developing altitude sickness at 9,000 feet in one of the most inhospitable environments on earth would count as a fairly substantial life crisis.
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- My hero is Dr. Gertrude Belle Elion. She is an American hero because she saved the lives of many sick people. When she was 15 years old, Gertrude watched her grandfather die of cancer and hoped that one day, maybe she could do something that would help people survive serious diseases like cancer.
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Adventurer who wanted to live like Bear Grylls in Scottish wilderness for a year found dead in less than a month Adventurer who wanted to live like Bear Grylls in Scottish wilderness for a year found dead in less than a month. A man found dead in a remote mountain hut was an adventurer who had planned a year-long Bear Grylls-style survival challenge in the Scottish wilderness. David Austin, 29, from Derby, was found dead in a 'bothy' by a track worker near Corrour, a remote railway station in Highland Perthshire, on December 31 at 9.50am.
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Sally Ride, 1st American Woman in Space, Dies at 61 Sally Ride, First American Woman In Space, Is Dead. Sally Ride monitors the control panels from the pilot's chair on the shuttle Columbia in June 1983. Ride, the first American woman in space, died Monday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Titanic actress Gloria Stuart dies aged 100 Gloria Stuart, the 1930s Hollywood beauty who gave up acting for 30 years and later became the oldest Academy Award acting nominee as the spunky survivor in Titanic, has died. Gloria Stuart Photo: AP.
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Two Sisters Mysteriously Found Dead in Seychelles Died From Fluid in Their Lungs, Police Say Annie Korkki, 37, and Robin Korkki, 42, were found unresponsive by resort staff in their hillside villa on September 22, just two days before they were scheduled to fly home, the Seychelles News Agency reported.
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- Inventor. He was a Buffalo area dentist who experimented with electro-shock, which led to his inventing the Electric Chair. His invention was first used at the New York State Penitentiary in Auburn on August 6, 1890 to execute William Kemmler, who had been convicted of March 23, 1889 murder of his common-law wife... Find A Grave
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- Malcolm Scott Carpenter, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts who was forced to take manual control of his Aurora 7 capsule after running low on fuel in one of the scarier moments of the early space program, died early Thursday. He was 88.
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Green Mile actor Michael Clarke Duncan, 54, dies two months after suffering severe heart attack Tragedy: Michael Clarke Duncan, pictured with fiancée Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth in February at a Grammys party, has died aged 54, two months after suffering a severe heart attack. Hollywood success: Michael was nominated for an Oscar following his performance in 1999's The Green Mile.