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1992: Billy Wayne White, after 47 minutes

Posted on 23 April, 2009 by Headsman

On this date in 1992, longtime heroin user Billy Wayne White waited 47 minutes while his executioners probed for a vein suitable to inject the lethal cocktail he incurred for a 1976 robbery-murder in Houston.

On this day..

  • 1935: Fred Blink, with hatred on his lips
  • 1845: Sarah Freeman, Shapwick Murderess
  • 1941: Harry Gleeson, posthumously exonerated
  • 1943: The massacre of Janowa Dolina
  • 1886: Robert Silas Fowler, lustful
  • 1290: Alv Erlingsson, the Last Viking
  • 1801: Angre Kethi, Polygar prey
  • 1886: Joseph Jackson and James Wasson, at Fort Smith
  • 1945: Massacres of Treuenbrietzen
  • Feast Day of St. George
  • 1969: Sirhan Sirhan condemned
  • 1945: Albrecht Haushofer, German Resistance intellectual

Possibly related executions:

  • 1993: Ruben Cantu, an innocent child?
  • 1997: Pedro Medina, en flambe
  • 1936: Bruno Richard Hauptmann, The Most Hated Man in the World
  • 1936: Rainey Bethea, America’s last public hanging
  • 1997: Ricky Lee Green
  • 1984: Alpha Otis O’Daniel Stephens: hear it live
  • 1924: Gee Jon, debuting the gas chamber
This entry was posted in 20th Century, Botched Executions, Capital Punishment, Common Criminals, Crime, Death Penalty, Disfavored Minorities, Execution, Lethal Injection, Murder, Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Texas, USA and tagged 1990s, 1992, april 23, billy wayne white, heroin by Headsman. Bookmark the permalink.
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