Encyclopedia entry: death's head

Article: Death sentences decline; death rows shrink
AP Online;  December 18, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... executions are sentencing many fewer inmates to death, a trend that slowly is reducing the death row population in the United States, a report ... capital punishment group says. There were 106 death sentences imposed in 2009, the Death Penalty ...

Article: Deaths related to narcotic pain relievers have doubled ...
Biotech Week;  December 23, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... million population) came somewhere between the incidence of death from HIV infection (12 deaths per million) and the incidence of death from sepsis, or severe infection (40 deaths per million). To reduce the number of deaths related to opioid ...

Article: DEATH-PENALTY LAWS CHANGED GIVING BALANCE NOT ENOUGH: ...
Herald-News (Joliet, IL);  June 30, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... the Supreme Court pulled the plug on the death penalty, calling it unconstitutional. At the time, there was an implied ban on the death sentence. No one had been executed since ... loaded, the court said. Existing American death-penalty laws were unfair and inconsistent ...

Article: Death certificates.(Medicolegal Issues)
Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... any legal proceeding that involves the death of an individual, regardless of whether ... information documented on the decedent's death certificate cannot be overstated. For ... lightly. The cause of an individual's death is of paramount importance in both criminal ...

Article: Deaths related to drug misuse continue to fall.
M2 Presswire;  February 24, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... series of annual reports on deaths in England and Wales where ... MRSA) was mentioned on the death certificate. Key statistics include: * Among deaths mentioning Staphylococcus ... increase in the number of death certificates with a mention ...

Article: DEATH PENALTY AND POLITICAL DYNAMICS.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  June 21, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... George W. Bush are strong supporters of the death penalty, the related controversies could ... could truly determine whether inmates on death row were guilty or innocent of the crime ... the political dynamics linked to the death penalty could create meaningful differences ...

Article: Deaths from cysticercosis, United ...
Emerging Infectious Diseases;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... cysticercosis-related deaths in the United States ... birth, and year of death. A total of 221 cysticercosis deaths were identified. Mortality ... equal to] 60% of all deaths. Although uncommon ... cause of premature death in the United States ...