Word: lethalized
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Into Colorado's new lethal gas chamber at Canon City last week Warden Roy Best put a crated hog. When he turned on the gas the hog squealed, struggled, died. Next into the chamber he put an old dog, a pigeon, a brace of canaries. They all died. Nearby in a cell sat William Cody Kelley, shifty-eyed farmhand. Refused clemency, he prayed quietly for his pretty 23-year-old wife, his 4-month-old baby. Unable to finance an appeal, he was to be the first man executed in Colorado without a review of his case...
...Dutchman van der Lubbe put to death: 1) by having his head chopped off with a battle ax? 2 ) by electrocution? 3) by garroting? 4) by guillotining? 5) by lethal gas? or 6) by hanging...
...Society puts animals to death with lethal gas. Private truckers under contract to the city's Sanitation Department call daily to collect carcasses, roll them out to Barren Island. There skinners pounce on horses and mules, cats with good fur. Horse hides make shoes, baseballs; cat hides which once became ladies' neckpieces, now vanish darkly into the Orient. Skinned carcasses are dumped in a big "digester," steamed to draw out fat. This is used for rough lubricating grease. Defatted remains are dried, ground up for fertilizer. Concessionaires pocket the profit...
...famous for numerous other reasons besides his ceremonial duties at the Harvard commencement. Some of the most famous of New England's outlaws and murderers have been placed in his care, and he has been present at every execution except one since he became sheriff. In his collection of lethal weapons and souvenirs of notorious criminals and the crimes they have perpetrated throughout New England, is a splicing hook to make the noose fit more snugly around the victim's neck, and the famous letter given to Sheriff Fairbairn by a condemned murderer just before he went up the steps...
...once to have been obvious to the administration, that agricultural production must be soberly limited within the United States. The white hope of our agriculture, outside of the ideal solution which would consist in social ownership, is the stimulation of our internal market and purchasing power. Certainly no more lethal a buffoonery than the back-to-the-farm movement could be contrived in the face of this emergency, and yet the melody lingers on many an inflamed and persuasive lip, and threatens to seduce us. The administration, in reviving production and purchasing power, has a difficult hand to play...