Word: lethalized
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...requires, as schoolboys know, much less initial impulse and much less bulky lines for transmission over long distances, than is required for Direct Current. Proponents of Direct were saying that high voltages of Alternating would "jump right off the wire"; that it was dangerous, fit only for use in lethal chairs at penitentiaries. Mr. Adams quietly ordered some experiments in insulation, which eventuated in the familiar porcelain cup device now used on high tension lines...
When a tortured patient begs his doctor for a lethal drug to end the misery, what is the doctor to do? The patient may be mangled in an accident. He may have cancer, syphilis, some other horror. He wants to die quickly, painlessly. Will the doctor help? Always the answer is "no." But sometimes the action is, silently, covertly, yes; for, although ending another's life or helping him to do so is murder before the Law, an overdose of merciful morphine can always be defended...
...republicanism, seriously considered legalizing death by professional prescription. Advocates argued that euthanasia has become common in the Reich. Opponents pointed out that no one man has the moral balance to decide on another's death. It apparently did not occur to the German debaters last week that lethal decisions, before the act, might be left to a jury of physicians or to a court...
Increased lethal effect is obtained by softening the nose of the bullet to make it spread at impact. Steel jacketed bullets shoot straightest and farthest but bore clean holes instead of smashing a wide wound. Various powder loads have various killing power, but following is a rough table of the calibres and types of bullets generally recommended for various types of killing by rifle...
...report spread through Pennsylvania last week that Robert Elliott, official executioner for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, had collapsed and resigned his posts after doing his lethal duty by Murderers Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray at Sing Sing Prison last fortnight. The report was false. Executioner Elliott had neither collapsed nor resigned. Nor did he collapse late last week when he pulled the switch that sent Leon Scovern, 20, to death for the murder of a sweetheart's brother...