Death sentence

Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus make no insulin. The classic symptoms of Type 1 diabetes are excessive hunger, constant thirst, and frequent urination. Prior to the availability of exogenous insulin, a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. The optimal therapy was to restrict food intake, usually to a few hundred calories a day. This extended life. However, toward the end, the only question was whether death would come as a consequence of the disease or through starvation. 

Andrew Fletcher, who survived a death sentence from James II and went on to help establish the new government, discussed the role of the armed citizen in A Discourse of Government with Relation to Militias (1698), where he said the constitution should put the sword into the hands of the subject. And I cannot see, why arms should be denied to any man who is not a slave, since they are the only true badges of liberty. i°... 

He knew that thallium compounds had no smell or taste and that the symptoms of poisoning could easily be mistaken for a variety of other ailments. But he wasn t quite as smart as he thought — Trepal neglected to get rid of the evidence. Police found a vial containing remnants of thallium nitrate in his home. George James Trepal now sits on death row while his lawyers attempt to cast doubt on the chemical evidence. And he s not the only thallium murderer to have received the death sentence. In Pennsylvania, Joann Curley awaits the same fate. 

The Maestro might have accused me of childish babbling to conceal fear and for once I would not have argued. The Venetian Council of Ten runs the finest international spy network in Europe, but it also knows everything about everyone within the Republic itself. Its members come and go, but its secretaries remain forever, and Sciara must have more secrets fluttering around inside his memory than San Marco has pigeons. Whatever personal hopes or motives he may have are hidden behind a mask of absolute loyalty to the state. I suspect he has been dehumanized by all the uncountable death sentences and forced confessions he must have recorded. 

Certainly not to mine, I agreed. An automatic death sentence, commuted to ten years in the galleys ... 

Siebenburger presiding, sentenced me to 22 months prison without probation. This is the equivalent of a death sentence for me. 

The apoptotic process is mediated by the caspase family of cysteine protease. Caspases are implicated both in the induction and execution of the death sentence. Apoptosis can be induced by (1) activation of death receptors, such as Fas, which recruits procaspase 8 via adaptor proteins and promotes its autocatalytic activation, and (2) the release of cytochrome C from mitochondria by DNA damaging drugs and other chemotherapeutic agents (Figure 7.11). 

Prior to execution of the beating punishment an examination by a physician was required. Death sentences required approval by the RSHA prior to execution.59... 

A death sentence considered too inhumane for this county s most violent criminals was handed down to my... 

You haven t eaten dinner yet she said in tones normally reserved for pronouncing death sentences. 

Ocular exposure causes immediate pain, lacrimation, and blepharospasm. Without rapid decontamination, within 1 min, permanent blindness may occur (EPA, 1985a Pohanish, 2002). In livestock this is a death sentence as they cannot survive on the range when blind. Droplets as small as 0.001 ml can cause comeal perforation and blindness (Sidell et al, 1997). 

Drinks mix office desks clutter decks of cards shuffle entropy is the natural tendency toward disorder. Entropy has also been called the tax that nature charges. Entropy has also been called the universal death sentence. But entropy is not just a philosophical construct or a pessimistic outlook. It is a real driver for physical processes and does indeed weigh in as a determinant in the fate of the universe. 

Franklin pleaded guilty and was hanged. Weston was also hanged although he maintained his plea of innocence throughout the trial. Rochester and the Countess were also found guilty but their death sentences were retracted and they were eventually pardoned by the King. 

A final example may be taken horn the war trials in countries that had been occupied by Germany during World War II. The immediate reaction after liberation was invariably to demand very heavy sentences for collaborators and informers. In several countries, the death sentence was reintroduced into the penal code. Many of those who advocated these measures no doubt thought of themselves as motivated by the wish that justice be done. In many individuals, however, this is likely to have been due to a transmutation of emotion, triggered by an intense passion for revenge together with a belief that revenge... 

For animals in the wild, disability—a condition that incapacitates in any way Webster s)—is tantamount to a death sentence. The only exceptions may be the very young of some species, protected by their mothers, or sometimes fathers. In contrast, animals cared for and useful to man—creatures in zoos, household pets, farm animals—can and often do survive in an incapacitated state. In fact, Americans now seem more willing to spend their oum money on veterinary care for their pets than on medical care for themselves. A distinguishing feature of a civilized society is its willingness to aid and protect its disabled members and refrain from needlessly destroying animals and plants. 

Tilly, J. L. Commuting the death sentence how oocytes strive to survive. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2 (2001) 838-848. 

Although the belief in witchcraft was widespread during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, a careful reading of the Malleus suggests that many were skeptical about the evils attributed to witches, and critical of the methods used by the inquisitors. There is, however, no direct evidence that men doubted the reality of witchcraft or the existence of witches. Open expression of such doubt would, of course, have been tantamount to a self-imposed death sentence for heresy. 

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