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...ordinary machine that has broken down in very specific, and potentially reparable, ways. They have studied the life history of a cancer cell and found errant genes at almost every step of the way, from the initial formation of a tumor to the advanced stages of metastasis, the lethal spread of the disease through the body...
...some great saint who had visions from God but rather an ordinary person who's just right to be an action-adventure hero." --SCREENWRITER LAETA KALOGRIDIS, ON THE SUBJECT OF HER NEW SCRIPT, IN NOMINE DEI, WHICH WAS SOLD LAST WEEK TO PRODUCER JOEL SILVER (LETHAL WEAPON) FOR A REPORTED...
...almost humdrum event. Today few people in town other than Jack King, the local mortician, even know that an execution has occurred until they read about it the next day, buried on an inside page of the Huntsville Item. When a chubby killer named Richard Beavers got his lethal injection of sodium thiopental last week, the only noteworthy aspect of the event was its timing: late on the night of Easter Sunday. That might have provoked an outcry a few years ago, but a vigil for Beavers outside the penitentiary's tall brick walls drew only four candle-carrying participants...
...course, lethal injection, in use here since 1982, is an antiseptic procedure. It lacks the drama of electrocuting someone. One of the region's biggest tourist draws is Old Sparky, the original death chair, which sits behind glass at the Texas Prison Museum four blocks from the Big House. Visitors from around the world come to gawk and marvel at the gleaming oak contraption where 361 killers met their fate from...
...according to Mory Framer, clinical director of the ! Barrington Psychiatric Center, which treated more than 1,000 victims. The Northridge quake left two special psychological scars because it came in the early hours when people were at home and in bed, thus transforming those two refuges into places of lethal danger. "Here we are, supposed to go back to our homes and back to our beds, but now it is frightening there," says Framer. Many people, his team discovered, have been waking up at exactly...