Saturday, January 3, 2009

MORE WEIRD NEWS FROM THE WACKY, STRANGE AND DANGEROUS

A News of the Weird Classic (column of April 28, 1989)

In 1983, convicted South Carolina murderer Michael Godwin, then 22, succeeded in getting an appeals court to reduce his death-by-electric-chair sentence to one of life in prison at the Central Correctional Institution in Columbia, S.C. Six years later, in March 1989, while sitting naked on a metal toilet and attempting to fix earphones that were connected to a television set, Godwin bit into a wire and was electrocuted.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

No way. Seriously. No WHAY!