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...STATE of Alabama executed John Evans last Friday night. For Evans, a convicted murderer, that execution was anything but painless. Even if one can temporarily disregard the mental anguish associated with any execution, the physical pain must have been terrible. It required three 30-second blasts of electricity at 1900 volts to kill Evans over a 10-minute period--a long time in which to carry out any kind of execution...
...those in intractable pain. It then offers the exact doses of drugs that will ensure death. The manual recommends that the drugs be used in combination with other methods, such as plastic garbage bags and auto exhaust. If the prescriptions are carefully followed, the end will presumably be painless and "the body when found should simply look dead and not disgusting." Because of the more than 20 known or suspected cases of suicide attributable to the Self-Deliverance manual, including that of a physically healthy 22-year-old music student, Britain's Attorney General is currently seeking to have...
When Gov. Michael S. Dukakis proposed an increase in the cigarette sales tax us part of his 1984 budget two weeks ago, it looked like a relatively painless way to help balance the budget...
This tentative solution lacks the consideration usually accorded to our "diverse" student population. An equal allocation, pay as you go policy is discriminatory to financial aid students, as well as to students living any farther than the local area. While summer storage might be relatively painless and cost free for a Bostonian, a Californian with a truckload of belongings will not have such an easy time...
Socrates was lucky. Found guilty of heresy and "corruption of the young," he was condemned to drink a cup of hemlock, a relatively honorable and painless death. By the standards of history, his execution in 399 B.C. was singularly humane...