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