Word: warden
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...into the baby- blue death chamber and spread-eagled on a gray gurney. He was tied down with white leather straps and ace bandages. As a dozen state officials and reporters watched, Wayne Scott, the prison system's deputy operations chief, appeared in a doorway and intoned, "Warden, you may proceed." A microphone was lowered and the condemned man offered a brief prayer as his last statement. Then the executioner, hidden behind a one-way mirror, released the deadly chemicals through two plastic tubes into the convict's forearms. In 30 seconds, Beavers grunted, coughed and lost consciousness. Six minutes...
...unclear how many of those trips Green Will actually make. But his assistant, Katherine D. Warden, said yesterday that the provost will go to Texas on Monday for a fundraising trip...
...sleep; in Dorking, England, south of * London. A leading British film actor who first won fame as the titular hammer- throwing phenom in 1955's Wee Geordie, Travers is best known in this country for Born Free (1966), in which he played George Adamson, the real-life game warden who oversaw the raising of Elsa the famous lioness...
...park and its riches. Residing in a relatively prosperous agricultural region, Raju is far better off than India's desperate poor. Even so, temptation led him to supplement his income by poaching other animals for years before he shot the tiger. Says C. Srinivasan, Nagarahole's deputy wildlife warden: "It's like trench warfare. We can never relax...
...prisoners here are much older, having spent 15, 20, 30 or more years behind bars, long past necessity. Rather than pay for new prisons, society would be well served by releasing some of its older prisoners who pose no threat and using the money to catch young street thugs. Warden John Whitley agrees that many older prisoners here could be freed tomorrow with little or no danger to society. Release, however, is governed by law or by politicians, not by penal professionals. Even murderers, those most feared by society, pose little risk. Historically, for example, the domestic staff at Louisiana...