Word: asphyxia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trial on Long Island last month, he made a stunning recantation. He had invented the murder story, he tearfully claimed, because he was ashamed to tell the truth: Holland had begged him to wrap a rope around her neck to produce a state of near suffocation, called sexual asphyxia, that is said to heighten erotic pleasure. In his excitement, he said, he pulled too hard. Nassau County Prosecutor Kenneth Littman derided the new story as the "oops defense." But the jury found Porto guilty on only the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide, a crime punishable by no more than...
Much of the controversy surrounding the Porto trial hinged upon whether sexual asphyxia would have been part of a teenage girl's erotic habits. Porto Attorney Barry Slotnick, who defended Subway Gunman Bernhard Goetz, put an expert on the stand who testified that the practice was far more common than people realize, though deaths occur mostly among males engaged in solitary...
...been for other killings you would have ruled Payne's death an accidental drowning?" Said Zaki: "I may have said something close to this, but not at all this." The grilling continued. "Doctor, do you know how Jimmy Payne died?" "He died as a result of asphyxia." "Do you know what caused that?" "I have not been able to establish the exact mechanism for that." Zaki conceded that Payne could conceivably have drowned, but he also insisted that bruises on the body and a lack of water in the lungs made it unlikely...
...usually stored as liquid and when released as a vapor or spray of droplets can enter the body by inhalation or by absorption through the skin. The gases work by blocking neurotransmitters, disrupting the central nervous system, inducing vomiting, convulsions and paralysis and finally death from respiratory failure and asphyxia. Exposure 0.4-1 milligram of gas kills within a few minutes. When released in high density nerve gases can persist as an airborne hazard for days or weeks...