Word: dies
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There are 404 condemned men, duly convicted and now awaiting execution in penitentiaries. One of them, Rapist William Patrick Clark, 29, who said that he wanted to die, was granted a stay by Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox last week, only 49 minutes before his scheduled electrocution. The same day, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling opened the way to a retrial for two Louisiana Negroes who have been awaiting electrocution since 1953 for the rape of a white woman. In Florida, a Federal District Court judge ordered a rare stay of execution for all of the state...
...smear" test for early detection, developed by Cornell University's late Dr. George N. Papanicolaou, the lives of an estimated 15,000 women are now being saved each year in the U.S. But gynecologists believe that almost as many women who develop cervical cancer each year will eventually die of it, and needlessly - because it is not being detected soon enough...
...governor and councillors are will aware that the Commonwealth's system of shared responsibility is little known or understood and that in the eyes of the nation any executions would be the fault of vice-presidential candidate Volpe. The prospect of the Democratic councillor's letting a man die in hopes of thwarting Governor Volpe's ambitions in grizzly, even unlikely, but to Massachusetts' politicians not unthinkable. Thus, some of Governor Volpe's advisors have come up with a proposal to remove the problem. Essentially, they have asked Volpe to submit a special message on capital punishment to the General...
steps of the roaring ladder, and then to clear the top on the last try, alive enough to spawn and die...
...specialization on the force. Insisting on a regular rotation of assignments, he made sure that men became familiar with each of the five patrolling areas at Harvard. "Some of the men had been standing in the same spot for 15 years," Tonis recalls. "They thought they were going to die. But it worked out great." Tonis saw to it that all men learned the same basic skills, and the rotation included the 13 officers on the force (one captain, two lieutenants, and ten sergeants) who also take periodic desk assignments at Grays Hall and the other branch headquarters...