Dead Pool 19th July 2020

Another exceptionally busy week for the evil flying monkeys, it’s not every week the list of deaths rolls onto two pages; also some very surprising deaths and tragic losses. An interesting expiration was that of Emmerdale’s Paula Tilbrook, who died in December last year but has only just announced last week. That one is a point award quandary for sure, luckily nobody listed her so I dodged a bullet there. But your thoughts on the subject would be greatly appreciated and probably ignored. So, onto points! With the tragic passing of John Lewis, our Lee scores 70 points, however Louise scores a fantastic 170 points as she listed him as her Cert. Well done both of you!

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In Other News

Katie Price has confirmed her son Harvey is in intensive care, expressing her gratitude for hospital workers who are looking after the 18-year-old. On Sunday evening, Price shared a tweet informing her 1.9m Twitter followers of her son’s condition. Harvey, who was born in May 2002, has partial blindness, autism and Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare genetic condition that can cause physical issues and behavioural difficulties. In her tweet, Price wrote: “I can confirm that Harvey is in intensive care and in the best hands. “I would like to thank the ambulance services and the hospital staff for the quick response and making him stable.” Price did not confirm why her son had been admitted to hospital. Harvey’s father is retired footballer Dwight Yorke, who Price dated in the early 2000s. The former Loose Women panellist has five children in total, of which Harvey is the eldest. The 42-year-old shares two children with ex-husband Peter Andre and two children with ex-spouse Kieran Hyler. Earlier this month, Price announced an upcoming BBC film about her son Harvey which would see her “open up about what it’s really like to be a mum of a disabled child approaching adulthood”. In June, the media personality gave evidence in a parliamentary inquiry about online abuse, speaking about the impact social media abuse has had on Harvey.       

It truly is the end times! A teenager has died after contracting bubonic plague in Mongolia, according to the country’s health ministry. Officials said a 15-year-old boy living in the Govia-Altai province in western Mongolia became unwell on Sunday. He died on the way to hospital in the Tugrug district of the province. Officials suspected he was killed by the Black Death. This was confirmed by lab tests conducted on Monday. “The result of a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test revealed on Monday night that bubonic plague caused the death of a 15-year-old boy,” Dorj Narangerel, Mongolia health ministry spokesperson, said at a news conference on Tuesday. Health authorities said the boy had eaten marmot meat with two friends three days before his death. The two friends and 15 others the boy came into contact with have been placed in isolation, officials added. It comes a week after the World Health Organisation said it was monitoring another case of bubonic plague in the Inner Mongolia region, which is part of China. Officials in the city of Bayan Nur issued an early epidemic warning on 5th July, one day after a hospital in the region reported that a man had displayed symptoms of the disease. Health officials later confirmed that the unidentified herdsman had tested positive for the illness and was placed in quarantine, where he recovered. It was not immediately known at the time how the man contracted the disease. The WHO said it was not treating the outbreak as high risk. “We are monitoring the outbreaks in China, we are watching that closely and in partnership with the Chinese authorities and Mongolian authorities,” WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told a UN press briefing in Geneva. The bubonic plague is a highly infectious disease that killed up to 200 million people during the Middle Ages and is spread mostly by rodents infected by fleas. Without prompt and effective treatment, up to 60 per cent of cases of bubonic plague are fatal, while untreated septicaemia and pneumonic plague are invariably fatal, according to the WHO.   

The United States government on Tuesday carried out the first federal execution in 17 years, putting to death a man who killed an Arkansas family in a 1990’s plot to build a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest. The execution came despite the objection of the victims’ family. Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, of Yukon, Oklahoma, died by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. “I didn’t do it,” Lee said before he was executed. “I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I’m not a murderer … You’re killing an innocent man.” The decision to move forward with the execution – the first by the Bureau of Prisons since 2003 – drew scrutiny from civil rights groups and the relatives of Lee’s victims, who had sued to try to halt it, citing concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. Critics argued that the government was creating an unnecessary and manufactured urgency for political gain. “The government has been trying to plough forward with these executions despite many unanswered questions about the legality of its new execution protocol,” said Shawn Nolan, one of the attorneys for the men facing federal execution. Lee’s execution took place after a series of legal volleys that ended when the Supreme Court stepped in early on Tuesday in a 5-4 ruling and allowed it to move forward. Four scheduled federal executions had been suspended by Judge Tanya Chutkan of the US district court in Washington, DC, on Monday to allow for legal challenges to the lethal injection that was to be used. In staying the executions, Chutkan ruled that the use of a single drug, pentobarbital, to carry out the executions could cause “extreme pain and needless suffering” and may violate a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Lee became the first federal inmate to be executed in the US since 2003 and the first since President Donald Trump announced plans to resume federal executions. 

On This Day

  • 1545 – The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth.  
  • 1843 – Brunel’s steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller, becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.  
  • 1969 – Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.

Deaths

Last Meals

Following on from the pervious article, Death Row inmate Daniel Lewis Lee wanted three last meals — but what he ate may remain a mystery. Before his execution, the triple murderer rambled about his first, second and final meal and said his order request “should speak for itself.” But the Bureau of Prisons declined to comment on what the 47-year-old white supremacist chowed down before he died by lethal injection on Tuesday at the federal prison in Terre Haute,  Indiana. “We will not be providing details of Mr. Lee’s last meal,” a BOP spokesperson said. Lee was convicted of killing guns dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy, and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell, in 1996 in Tilly, Arkansas. He implored the media at his execution to ask the judge about DNA evidence that was left out of the trial. “I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I’m not a murderer. You’re killing an innocent man,” said Lee, who was a member of the Aryan People’s Republic.

Last Week’s Birthdays

Benedict Cumberbatch (43), Jared Padalecki (37), Ramin Djawadi (45), Kristen Bell (39), Vin Diesel (52), Elizabeth McGovern (58), Priyanka Chopra (37), Donald Sutherland (84), Alex Winter (54), Eric Winter (43), David Hasselhoff (67), Will Ferrell (52), Phoebe Cates (56), Corey Feldman (48), Travis Fimmel (41), Diane Kruger (44), Brigitte Nielsen (57), Forest Whitaker (59), Terry O’Quinn (68), Celia Imrie (68), Jesse Ventura (69), Adam Savage (53), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (35), Jackie Earle Haley (59), David Mitchell (46), Simon Merrells (55), Kyle Gass (60), Harrison Ford (78), Patrick Stewart (80), Ken Jeong (51), and Cheech Marin (74).

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