The Potato Famine and Death

Wesley Allen Dodd was executed by hanging in 1993. Robert Towery's last words were, I love my family. The average potato famine is estimated to have killed 1 million people between 1845 and 1851 from starvation or hunger related diseases. In India, eight people died after massive sacks of potatoes caused a facility's roof to collapse. There was also one, I believe, a Russian family had rotting potatoes in their basement, and the gases from it killed them.

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