by APFLI | Jun 10, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A British woman was given the mandatory minimum sentence (at least 9 years) for smothering a man to death. Heather Davidson (54) pled guilty to smothering David Paterson (81) to death on February 11, 2015. According to the York Press Davidson claimed that she was...
by APFLI | May 23, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A Dutch appeals court acquitted a 74-year-old man earlier this month of the murder of his mother in 2008, because he acted in an “emergency situation”: the woman wanted euthanasia and had not obtained it from her family doctor. The decision is a surprising one, even...
