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  2. Tarkhan dress - Wikipedia

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    The Tarkhan Dress, named for the Tarkhan cemetery south of Cairo in Egypt where it was excavated in 1913, is an over 5000 year old linen garment that was confirmed as the world's oldest piece of woven clothing. [2] [1] The dress coded UC28614B is currently in the collection of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. [3]

  3. Mecklenburg Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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    During the prison's last decade of operation, it was used to house inmates short term. They were newly convicted and spent a few months at Mecklenburg before being classified based on their security risk and reassigned to other prisons. Death row was moved from this facility to Sussex I State Prison near Waverly, Virginia in 1997.

  4. List of prison escapes - Wikipedia

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    Martin Gurule escaped from the Texas Death Row at Ellis Unit on 26 November 1998. He was shot during his escape and died the same night but his body wasn't found until a week later. [34] In 1999, Leslie Dale Martin and three other inmates on Louisiana's death row escaped from their cells at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. They were caught ...

  5. Prison uniform - Wikipedia

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    Striped prison uniform, contemporary design as used in the United States and other countries Inmates outfitted in common present-day prison uniforms (gray-white), US. A prison uniform is a set of standardized clothing worn by prisoners. It usually includes visually distinct clothes worn to indicate the wearer is a prisoner, in clear distinction ...

  6. List of death row inmates in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Name Description of crime Time on death row Other David Edenfield: Raped and murdered 6-year-old Christopher Barrios Jr. 15 years, 89 days Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia. Tiffany Moss: Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss. 5 years, 248 days Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia. Michael Nance

  7. Death row - Wikipedia

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    Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death.The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution ("being on death row"), even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists.

  8. Troy Leon Gregg - Wikipedia

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    Their escape was not discovered until Gregg telephoned a newspaper to explain their reasons for doing so. [6] It has been alleged that Gregg was beaten to death later that night in a biker bar in North Carolina, and that his body was found in a lake. [6] Gregg had supposedly been drinking heavily and attempted to assault a waitress.

  9. List of prison deaths - Wikipedia

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    Died in a solitary confinement cell at Changi Prison's death row section. Found guilty in 1992 of kidnapping and murdering his former employer, and sentenced to hang. His accomplice Ibrahim Masod, also on death row, was put to death 11 months later on 29 July 1994 Joe "Pegleg" Morgan: 1993-11-08 Mexico (detained by the United States) Liver cancer