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DIED. James Autry, 29, convicted murderer who was 31 minutes away from death last October when a U.S. Supreme Court stay gave him a temporary reprieve; by execution (an intravenous injection of sodium pentothal, Pavilion and potassium chloride); at the Texas state prison in Huntsville. Two days after Autry's execution, North Carolina put to death (also by injection) Killer James Hutchins...
Call it Richard Pryor Born Again. Not that this coruscating comic actor has seen the heavenly light, renounced his steady diet of high-sodium ghetto talk that would singe the ears of maiden aunts and Marine sergeants alike, and cutified himself into Nipsey Russell. Au contraire, as they say in the French Quarter of New Orleans, where this third chapter in Pryor's scarifyingly frank autobiography was shot. The man is still baaad as ever, effortlessly libeling ex-wives (make that all women), Ronald Reagan (make that most white folks) and a tiny racing crab that managed to scamper...
...second man in the U.S. executed by injection, and after he was strapped down, a prison employee inserted an IV tube into each arm. A harmless saline solution began to flow, while executioners prepared to release a fatal dose of Pavulon, potassium chloride and thiopental sodium. He lay there waiting to die at the appointed time...
...sure enough, Coke's announcement barely made, Royal Crown Cola, also of Atlanta, tried to do Coke one lesser. It said that its Diet Rite Cola, the first diet soft drink ever (1962), will also be sweetened with aspartame and will contain no caffeine or, another first, sodium...
...environmental irritant." Investigators had noted the presence of a yellow powder, possibly pollen, on some windowsills of one school near Jenin, and the air in the vicinity of the school was found to contain a trace of hydrogen sulfide. Doctors in Hebron observed slightly excessive amounts of calcium and sodium in the blood of some of their patients. Said one local doctor: "There is no sign of poisoning. Still, something has happened to these girls...