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[BettyO]

(07-16-2012 06:37 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I remember one author many long years ago commenting on Paine's large neck muscles and that he tensed them as long as he could in order to prevent the rope from cutting off his windpipe. Whether that is possible or not, I have no idea.

Who was that author? Interesting....I've never heard that before. Dr. Gillette said that he could hear Powell gasping and that it haunted him for the rest of his life....apparently the rope was cutting his windpipe. I'm sure that the rope still cut deep into his neck; thick muscles or no.... According to what I've read, Powell's contortions were made after he had gone unconscious; that it was some sort of muscle contractions.... I don't know. It's one of the things that I want to ask Blaine. A very, very cruel death....