Word: die
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson fought its way back from a 35-14 deficit in The Game to within one touchdown. But the Yale offense killed the last six minutes of the season, as senior quarterback Larry Brown and his cohorts watched hopes die one last time...
...last to die that year was Luis Jose Monge, who was gassed in Colorado for murdering his pregnant wife and three children. In 1977, Murderer Gary Gilmore was executed in Utah, but he scorned all appeals and went willingly before the firing squad, saying just before his death...
...that. I go everywhere. I drive my own car. I usually like to drive in the first car of a convoy because that way I see more of my people and my country. That's what I live for, and that's what I'll die...
...Court's docket. The court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in September in Hall v. Myers, a case that deals with the appropriateness of euthanasia for any patient, competent or incompetent. It involves a prisoner on renal dialysis who wanted to stop his treatments and be allowed to die. The Suffold Superior Court has ruled that the prison commissioner could force the prisoner to keep taking his life-saving treatment...
...state's interest in preserving the sanctity of human life. And the court must once again address the prickly question, who should pull the plug? Should the court provide doctors a guideline for dealing with patients who refuse treatment, or should it require adjudication of all right-to-die cases? The court's answer could lead to another stormy chapter in the effort to resolve the dilemma that Karen Ann Quinlan first triggered...