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  2. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    A euphemism that developed in slang on social media, particularly TikTok, to avoid censorship of the words "kill" and "die." Unsubscribe from life To die Euphemistic: 21st century slang Up and die Unexpected death, leaving loose ends Euphemistic: Waste [20] To kill Slang Wearing a pine overcoat (i.e. a wooden coffin) [citation needed] Dead Slang

  3. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    The victim would then suffer from severe diarrhoea, which would attract insects that would burrow and nest in the victim, eventually causing death from sepsis. Of disputed historicity. Slow slicing: The methodical removal of portions of the body over an extended period of time, usually with a knife, eventually resulting in death.

  4. List of types of killing - Wikipedia

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    Suicide, intentionally causing one's own death. Altruistic suicide, suicide for the benefit of others. Autocide, suicide by automobile collision. Medicide, a suicide accomplished with the aid of a physician. Murder-suicide, a suicide committed immediately after one or more murders. Self-immolation, suicide by fire, often as a form of protest.

  5. Hanged, drawn and quartered - Wikipedia

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    When appointed the MP for Queensborough in 1806 he resolved to improve what he described as "Our sanguinary and barbarous penal code, written in blood". [86] He managed to repeal the death penalty for certain thefts and vagrancy, and in 1814 proposed to change the sentence for men guilty of treason to being hanged until dead and the body left ...

  6. Capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [206] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [207] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [208] [209] [210] or has a brutalization effect, [211] [212] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence". [213]

  7. Execution by shooting - Wikipedia

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    Execution by shooting is a method of capital punishment in which a person is shot to death by one or more firearms.It is the most common method of execution worldwide, used in about 70 countries, [1] with execution by firing squad being one particular form.

  8. Oklahoma executes inmate who dies vomiting and convulsing - AOL

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    John Marion Grant, 60, who was strapped to a gurney inside the execution chamber, began convulsing and vomiting after the first drug, the sedative midazolam, was administered. Several minutes ...

  9. Vomiting - Wikipedia

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    Fresh blood in the vomit is termed hematemesis ("blood vomiting"). Altered blood bears resemblance to coffee grounds (as the iron in the blood is oxidized) and, when this matter is identified, the term coffee-ground vomiting is used. Bile can enter the vomit during subsequent heaves due to duodenal contraction if the