The lawful infliction of death as a punishment; the death penalty. Capital punishment continues to be used in the United States despite controversy over its merits and over its effectiveness as a deterrent to serious crime. A sentence of death may be carried out by one of five lawful means: electrocution, hanging, lethal injection, gas chamber, and firing squad.
Review the available symptom checkers for these symptoms of Autoimmune diseases: 1  Fever -- Symptom Checker. 2  Cough -- Symptom Checker. 3  Cough -- Symptom Checker. 4  Wheezing -- Symptom Checker. 5  Rash -- Symptom Checker. 6  Diarrhoea -- Symptom Checker.
PANDAS is hypothesized to be an autoimmune disorder that results in a variable combination of tics, obsessions, compulsions, and other symptoms that may be severe enough to qualify for diagnoses such as chronic tic disorder, OCD, and Tourette syndrome (TS or TD).he proposed link between infection and these disorders is that an initial autoimmune reaction to a GABHS infection produces antibodies that interfere with basal ganglia function, causing symptom exacerbations. It has been proposed that this autoimmune response can result in a broad range of neuropsychiatric symptoms.