Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there be a set of numbers between zero and zero-zero? It sounds like the most abstruse speculation in mathematics. But the math in this case is the potentially lethal calculus of nuclear weaponry, and so the question is leading to a backstage brawl in Washington...
...outskirts of Denver, a storehouse of potential death sprawls across 27 sq. mi. of rolling prairie. It is the site of the U.S. Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal, which produced weapons and chemical agents until 1969. It now harbors corroded canisters of mustard gas, lethal phosphorus wastes from incendiary bombs, unexploded rockets and mortar shells embedded in a former firing range, millions of cubic yards of soil peppered with pesticides and an abandoned five-story production plant contaminated with nerve gas. Two vast man-made lagoons, once used as dump pits for toxic chemical and biological wastes...
...More Palatable" Way of Killing Texas carries out the first execution by lethal injection...
Brooks was the first, but since 1977 the new technique has become something of a legislative fad in the West. In addition to Texas, neighboring Oklahoma and New Mexico have nearly identical laws, as does Idaho; in Washington, the condemned have a choice: lethal injection or hanging. A dozen other states have rejected similar changes, but Massachusetts is now close to adopting such a provision. "Technology has come a long way since the electric chair," says State Senator Edward Kirby. "Because an injection is less painful and less offensive it would be foolish...
...EXECUTION of Charles Brooks, Jr in a Texas prison last week was handled in a bizarre manner by the mainstream news media. In the New York Times, and on network television news shows, the fact that Brooks was the first American to be executed by lethal injection often sidetracked the press into focusing on the "ethical questions" raised by a doctor's participation in taking Brook's life. A second tangential issue that received prominent play was whether or not pumping deadly chemicals into Brooks was more "humane" than giving him a lethal dose of electricity or forcing...