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...tough with violent criminals, to kill the killers, seems on the verge of putting the nation's 15 electric chairs, nine gas chambers, several gallows and ad hoc firing squads back to regular work. In addition, five states have a new and peculiarly American technique for killing, lethal anesthesia injections, which could increase public acceptance of executions. Experts on capital punishment, both pro and con, agree that as many as ten to 15 inmates could be put to death this year, a total not reached since the early 1960s. "People on death rows are simply running out of appeals...
...will either be sent home for a week, while his urine drains into a bag, or remain overnight in the hospital. The advantage of waiting a week is that it allows time for tissues around the opening to harden, thus enabling doctors to complete the job using only local anesthesia...
...merely an answer, but 100 of them. A personal computer, it says, can send letters at the speed of light, diagnose a sick poodle, custom-tailor an insurance program in minutes, test recipes for beer. Testimonials abound. Michael Lamb of Tucson figured out how a personal computer could monitor anesthesia during surgery; the rock group Earth, Wind and Fire uses one to explode smoke bombs onstage during concerts; the Rev. Ron Jaenisch of Sunnyvale, Calif, programmed his machine so it can recite an entire wedding ceremony...
...choice in what is done to them." In one case, a woman's fallopian tubes are tied (a form of sterilization) after she gives birth because her doctor suspects that her uterus is unfit for another pregnancy. He gets her permission while she is half-paralyzed by anesthesia. Another woman is dragooned into a hysterectomy by a gynecologist who refuses to discuss any other options and falsely assures her that "it's just a little operation. [After] a day or two, you'll be bouncing around." According to Harrison, almost every woman giving birth at Beth Israel...
...ability of certain organisms to develop natural defenses against insects--led to the multi-million dollar pesticide industry. His new approaches to insect control were featured a couple of years ago in a Nova program on public television. Williams has also devised surgical techniques in insects, including methods of anesthesia, which "have subsequently come to be used throughout the world in substantially unchanged form," Schneiderman said...