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...overwhelming majority of the Massachusetts House of Representatives yesterday to override Gov.Edward J.King's vein of a bill requiring the divestment of all state pension funds from farms doing business in South Africa. The Senate approval the override Monday and the measure becomes...
Charlie Brooks walked into the execution chamber, stretched out on the hospital gurney, and a catheter needle was inserted into a vein in each of his arms. Into the left (on which Brooks had a tattoo reading I WAS BORN TO DIE) would come the drugs; the right catheter was a standby. Extending from each needle was a length of clear plastic tubing that ran through a plywood slat to the executioner's room next door, and there into a standard hospital bag of saline solution...
...drug involved is 5-azacytidine, which until now has been used only to treat cancer. In the most fully described case so far, a 42-year-old man with severe thalassemia, who needed a blood transfusion every two weeks, received a continuous infusion of the drug through a vein in his arm for seven days. At the end of the week, the concentration of healthy red blood cells in his blood had increased by 25%. This beneficial effect persisted for about a month...
...will surely prove the starting point for a long debate. One problem is that the method has simply not been adequately tested. Thought to be quick and painless, the injection technique could also cause a bloodbath. As one doctor explained: "Sometimes it's tough as hell to find a vein. If you miss, the pain can be excruciating. And besides, even if you do get the vein, no one is really sure the convict doesn't suffer for a few minutes while the drug is being administered...
...ended--the Times buried Brooks' execution on page 28. Unless those with an interest in justice step forward soon, we will see the issue turned over to people like the pro-execution demonstrators outside the prison in Huntsville. They posed for the cameras with signs saying "Kill 'em in vein," while brandishing a large Confederate flag...