"The fact she had her teeth extracted several years before her death because of what her family believed was Coke-induced tooth decay, and the fact that one or more of her children were born without enamel on their teeth, should have been treated by her, and by her family, as a warning, " TVNZ quotes his statement as saying.

BBC: Coca-Cola bottles (Archive shot)

Juries, aware that a life sentence does not mean what it says, opt for the death sentence because they perceive correctly that a murderer will then at least serve the rest of his life behind bars.

ECONOMIST: Letters

The mountain's summit stands at 8, 848 metres high, and beyond 7, 600 metres climbers enter what is known as the "death zone" - so called because of the serious effects of oxygen deprivation on the body.

BBC: Climber abandons Everest attempt

The court heard that Mr Ferry's mother, who suffers serious ill health, suffered mental anguish due not only to his death and the manner of it, but because for five months she had no idea what had happened to him.

BBC: Garry Smith admits murdering Graeme Ferry and burying body

Content providers do not like payments for microtransactions either, because they punish avid users, nickel-and-diming them to death, while rewarding dabblers by giving them what they want at low cost.

ECONOMIST: So many ways to pay online