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Re:Most Execrable and Abominable or Irreligious: When Pope C... by pasquinelli on Friday January 15, 2021 @08:43PM (#25799089)
I wonder if he asked for more because he liked it or to be sure he didn't have to live through another overdose.
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Re:Most Execrable and Abominable or Irreligious: When Pope C... by inimino on Friday January 15, 2021 @11:38PM (#25800090)
The article continues:

> The prisoner survived the first test and asked for the dose to be doubled on the second attempt, on the assumption that he would go free if he survived, which he did not.

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