Word: die
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...Sept. 2, 1983, Jimmy Lee Gray, sentenced to die for the rape-slaying of a three-year-old girl, entered the gas chamber in Parchman, Mississippi. But eight minutes after his execution began, witnesses cleared the viewing area, repelled by what they were seeing. Gray, suffocating and purple-faced, died slamming his head against a steel pole. Gas-chamber executions are supposed to end with a quick loss of consciousness...
Although lethal injection has become the most popular method in most states because of its pain-free "humaneness," in eight cases before Gacy's it was anything but. The most heartrending: the execution of Rickey Ray Rector, sentenced to die for murdering a policeman. On Jan. 24, 1992, in Conway, Arkansas, loud moans spilled out of the death chamber as technicians kept Rector tied down during a search for "good" veins. Attendants were about to prepare a "cut-down," in which the arm is sliced open to insert an intravenous catheter, when a vein in his right hand was finally...
...remains part of the omnibus crime bill now before Congress. The act would allow minority inmates on death row in federal and state prisons to use statistics to show that their sentence was part of a pattern of discrimination. For example, if the number of blacks sentenced to die or for whom prosecutors sought the death penalty in a state was vastly disproportionate to the number of whites involved in similar crimes, penalties -- though not convictions -- might be reversed...
Reynolds Price still has the letters people sent him when they thought he was about to die. Some move him to tears. The most formal and solemn give him, characteristically, the giggles. All of them fill him with triumph -- he is, after all, still around to read them...
...next book is a novel, tentatively titled The Promise of Rest and on schedule to be finished by Labor Day. "It deals with the complex situation that develops when a man in his early 30s comes home to Durham to his recently separated parents to die of AIDS. I think of it as my stint as an AIDS nurse. Because of my condition, I could not enter into that unbelievably grueling but fascinating process when my friends were dying...