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...denaturing" process that had transformed it into industrial oil, simultaneously making it unfit for human consumption. Apparently, some distributors botched the reversal process and unwittingly created a deadly poison. But the adulterated oil was already on the market, being peddled by door-to-door salesmen who unsuspectingly offered their lethal wares as a bargain for hard-pressed families. At about $5.50 for a 5-gal. plastic container, the oil cost 25% less than a comparable amount of olive...
...President Nixon banned any U.S. production of biological weapons. Within the past two years, the Army has been granted $23 million for a factory in Pine Bluff, Ark., to manufacture "binary" chemical weapons, in which components of nerve gas are loaded separately into artillery shells and become lethal only upon explosion. Ronald Reagan, however, has yet to authorize production...
Fake amphetamines are not only lethal but legal...
...penitentiary a half-mile away, and the 82 convicts who sat in it during those years never got up; they were electrocuted. But in Oklahoma, Texas, Idaho and New Mexico, electric chairs-along with gallows and gas chambers-will soon give way to a far less forbidding piece of lethal equipment: the hypodermic needle. Next week at the prison in McAlester, a hard-drinking drifter and murderer named Thomas Lee ("Sonny") Hays, 45, is scheduled to become the first man in the world to be executed by injection...
Actually, Hays may earn his place in the record books by a mere 24 hours.Though a court-ordered delay is predicted, Texas authorities in Huntsville are scheduled to give a lethal injection the following day to convicted Killer Charles Milton, 30. Depending on reports from observers at both events, the needle may soon come under consideration as a means of execution for many of the 850 men and women now on the nation's death rows...