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EXECUTED. AILEEN WUORNOS, 46, hitchhiking prostitute who murdered seven men along Florida's highways in 1989 and 1990; by lethal injection; in Starke, Fla. The 10th woman executed in the U.S. since the resumption of capital punishment in 1976, Wuornos halted all appeals after a decade in prison, saying, "If I have to spend life in prison, I will kill. I will kill again...
...left to wonder: Which is it? Does Clinton believe Iraq’s dictator is a reasonable type who can be deterred by U.S. power? Or does he regard him as the sort of man who would provide lethal weaponry to terrorist cells and use the threat of a well-stocked arsenal to challenge for Middle-Eastern hegemony? Though Bill Clinton once guaranteed that Hussein would indeed utilize his weapons “some day,” he appears to have changed his mind...
...falciparum causes the most lethal form of human malaria, which is the world's most serious parasitic tropical illness, killing 1 million to 3 million people each year...
...parliament asking for tougher guidelines on assisted suicide and the exclusion of foreigners from the procedure. Dignitas may be ruffling a lot of feathers, but it isn't breaking any laws. Switzerland has some of the world's most liberal statutes on assisted suicide: a doctor may provide a lethal dose of drugs to a terminally ill person if a physician is convinced that the patient has no chance of recovery, that he or she is mentally and physically capable of making the decision to die, and that the patient administers the drug him- or herself. Euthanasia, however - in which...
Skeptics on the school committee also worry that merging so many schools at one time would deal a lethal blow to the city’s precarious controlled choice plan, a system that lets parents choose where their children go to school so long as diversity at each school stays within a set of racial and socioeconomic quotas...