21.   Also the number of deaths with various diagnoses can be obtained from the annually updated national statistics on the causes of death.

22.   Their mother had been battered to death with a hammer.

23.   A MAN beat a lone woman hiker almost to death with a rock after she turned down his sexual advances, a court heard.

24.   A SON jailed last year for blasting his sadistic and tyrannical father to death with a shotgun lost his appeal against his four-year sentence yesterday.

25.   A MAN who bludgeoned two youths to death with a baseball bat was jailed for life at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday.

26.   TWO men who battered a man to death with hockey sticks after he shouted racist taunts at them walked free from the High Court in Glasgow yesterday.

27.   Although he was hospitalized for a short time before his death with severe headaches and fever, he was sent home to die.

28.   And some are so close to death the choice is clearly between pointless medical heroics or palliative care and a death with dignity.

29.   And this year, the city is marking the bicentennial of his death with exhibitions, books and lectures.

30.   Another was beaten to death with boards pulled from a building after POWs concluded that he was collaborating with U.S. authorities.