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Posthumous sperm retrieval (PSR) is a procedure in which spermatozoa are collected from the testes of a human corpse after brain death. There has been significant debate over the ethics and legality of the procedure, and on the legal rights of the child and surviving parent if the gametes are used for impregnation. [1]
Georgia (1972), essentially ruling the imposition of the death penalty at the same time as a guilty verdict unconstitutional, Florida was the first state to draft a newly written statute on August 12, 1972, [5] and all 96 death row inmates (95 male and 1 female) were commuted to life in prison.
Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 [12] when the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty did not violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, 22 people have been executed for crimes committed while they were under the age of 18. All of the 22 executed individuals were males, and all were ...
Florida has high level of exonerations from death row
Parents may now give up unwanted children up to 30 days after birth, no questions asked, under an expansion of Florida's Safe Haven law. Unwanted babies may be surrendered in Florida. These are ...
John Ramsey, father of JonBenet Ramsey, shares how his faith was 'challenged' and ultimately strengthened after losing his two daughters over a four-year period in the 1990s.
For example, Massachusetts law states that a posthumous child is treated as having been living at the death of the parent, [3] meaning that the child receives the same share of the parent's estate as if the child had been born before the parent's death. Most states recognize a posthumous child born within a set time frame, normally 280 to 300 ...
A father is speaking out after filing a wrongful death lawsuit against his daughter's school board after she died allegedly as the result of being given a dessert containing nuts, despite having a ...