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The American Medical Assn. has made a wise and useful revision of its code of ethics to permit medical doctors to withhold from certain patients "all means of life-prolonging medical treatment," including food and water.
A convicted child molester whose death sentence was overturned by the state Supreme Court was today resentenced to die in San Quentin prison's gas chamber.
I noted, in Paul Rosenfield's article ("Did Mike Nichols Squander His Luck on 'Heartburn'?
At first the gruff, bull-like man was one of those pesky gadflies--a minor irritant buzzing around the heads of politicians.
State prosecutors demanded the death penalty today for 86-year-old alleged Nazi war criminal
Drugs are so commonplace in American society, cynics say, that there is almost nothing that we can do to stop people from abusing substances like cocaine.
My wife and I partook of a Calico Tour to Death Valley last week and had a truly wonderful time.
It is a case with all the elements of a pulp novel: A killing, lurid sex stories, a kidnaping, a high-speed chase.
A Milwaukee man accused of setting his wife on fire after watching the television movie "The Burning Bed" goes on trial today.
A foundry worker was burned to death Monday as he slept under a furnace at a steel mill in Zenica, central Yugoslavia, official sources said.
"A Couple Disappear in Bermuda Triangle of Death Valley" by Ann Japenga on Dec. 21 is an unjust
Santa Monica Superior Court Judge Harry Mock Jr. today handed out the death penalty to John William
war crimes he allegedly committed while serving as a Nazi death camp guard known as "Ivan the Terrible."
I read with sorrow and horror The Times Poll report that "most Californians support the death
I am against capital punishment. It does not deter crime. It is a desperate act of revenge.
Sankaijuku's entire scheduled American tour--including Los Angeles dates later this month and early October--has been canceled in the aftermath of the accident that killed performer Yoshiyuki Takada during the company's celebrated "hanging dance" in Seattle on Tuesday afternoon.
In the 20th Century, hundreds of thousands of our best and bravest young men have died in wars.
and a starring role on TV's "Hotel," was unconscious and near death today after suffering a stroke while walking to her hairdresser.
The language of the Briggs Initiative in stating that a jury shall impose the death penalty if it