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Magnusson, Roger S. "The sanctity of life and the right to die: social and jurisprudential aspects of the euthanasia debate in Australia and the United States" in Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal (6:1), January 1997. Palmer, "Dr. Adams' Trial for Murder" in The Criminal Law Review. (Reporting on R. v. Adams with Devlin J. at 375f.) 365–377, 1957.
Voluntary assisted dying schemes have been in effect in the following states; Victoria since 19 June 2019, [1] Western Australia since 1 July 2021, [2] Tasmania since 23 October 2022, [3] Queensland since 1 January 2023, [4] South Australia since 31 January 2023 [5] and New South Wales since 28 November 2023. [6]
R v Latimer, [2001] 1 SCR 3 was a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in the controversial case of Robert Latimer, a Saskatchewan farmer convicted of murdering his disabled daughter, Tracy Latimer. The case sparked an intense national debate as to the ethics of what was claimed as a mercy killing. [1]
Their new life began on 3 November 1973 [1] when, while driving a stolen vehicle, Baker used a .308 rifle to murder Ian James Lamb, 43. Lamb was sleeping in his car next to the road to save accommodation costs while he was in the area to look for seasonal work. [2] The pair did not know Lamb, [2] and the murder has been described as a thrill ...
The same poll found that 41% believe that mercy killing should be legal. [27] Ethicist Arthur Schafer argued that Latimer was "the only person in Canadian history to spend even a single day in prison for a mercy killing" and that compassion and common sense dictated a reduced sentence and the granting of parole. [28]
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The Telegraph noted that the killing of the disabled infant—whose name was Gerhard Kretschmar, born blind, with missing limbs, subject to convulsions, and reportedly "an idiot"— provided "the rationale for a secret Nazi decree that led to 'mercy killings' of almost 300,000 mentally and physically handicapped people". [49]
BlackBerry is doing the inevitable, informing its subscribers that it will be shutting down its BBM Music service in two months. The late 2011 rollout of BBM Music was flawed from the start. The ...