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There are 404 condemned men, duly convicted and now awaiting execution in penitentiaries. One of them, Rapist William Patrick Clark, 29, who said that he wanted to die, was granted a stay by Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox last week, only 49 minutes before his scheduled electrocution. The same...
Everything in Massachusetts, it seems, including questions of life of death, has an eerie way or revolving around politics. Nine men-one of whom just arrived this week-sit in the shiny, antiseptic cells of Walpole prison's Death Row awaiting electrocution. Whether any are executed within the next six...
In Kentucky last week, the state leg slature overwhelmingly defeated a bill to abolish capital punishment; in Tennessee, a Memphis judge sentenced five Negroes to electrocution for raping a white girl. At the same time, the Justice Department announced an alltime low in U.S. executions: in 1965, only seven persons...
New Role. "People used to think of the anesthetist as a faceless person who suddenly appears in the surgery, does his little assignment, and then disappears," said Dr. Volpitto. "It's different today. Anesthesiologists see the patients in advance, and we play a role with the surgeon in preparing...
Thousands of political opponents died in his secret police dungeons, mysterious "auto accidents" and "suicides." There were electric chairs for slow electrocution, another many-armed electrical device attached by tiny screws inserted into the skull, a rubber collar that could be tightened to sever a man's head, plus...