Word: lethally
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...jury votes for the death penalty, the sentence will not be carried out anytime soon. Both the guilty verdict and the death sentence can be appealed, and this process may take at least three or four years. Should the execution day come, the method will be lethal injection...
...personal history to his culpability and intent in the Oklahoma bombing. They had voted on an excruciatingly long list of factors to reach their final choice: Life or death. In the end, the jury, standing one by one, affirmed that they had chosen the ultimate penalty: death by lethal injection. As McVeigh was escorted from the courtroom after the verdict, he turned to his family and appeared to mouth the words ?it?s all right.? He then made the peace sign. Having been sentenced to death for the murders of eight federal employees, he will next stand trial in Oklahoma...
...prosecutors are expected to use as many emotionally wrenching stories from victims as Matsch will allow. For the defense, the almost impossible task will be to convince jurors that although McVeigh was responsible for the deaths of eight federal agents -- a capital offense -- he doesn't deserve death by lethal injection. TIME's Patrick Cole reports that while it isn?t known whether McVeigh will take the stand in his own defense, his father and sister are expected to testify...
...beneath that high gloss of professional success lay struggle and intense self-doubt; behind their united front lurked dissatisfactions and secrets that eventually unraveled the whole idyllic package. And on April 11, Dorris, 52, was found dead in a Concord, New Hampshire, motel room. He had swallowed a lethal combination of pills and vodka and had tied a plastic bag over his head--a suicide method reminiscent of that used by the Heaven's Gate cultists weeks before. "To whomever finds me, sorry for the inconvenience," his suicide note read in part. "I was desperate. I love my family...
Grumpy might have been safer. Old Country Jews believed that acknowledging good fortune would attract an evil eye, a kineahora. Roth brings this useful superstition home when, as a teenager, the Merry Levov contracts a lethal case of '60s political self-righteousness. She blows up the town's general store-post office, killing a passerby, and then vanishes...