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Orville Lynn Majors (April 24, 1961 – September 24, 2017) was a licensed practical nurse and serial killer who was convicted of murdering his patients in Clinton, Indiana. Though he was tried for only seven murders and convicted of six, he was believed to have caused additional deaths between 1993 and 1995, when he was employed by the ...
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This peculiar short story is an uneasy mixture of suspense, comedy and tragedy (the final mercy-killing and suicide). Since the whole thing is rather pointless, with nothing to say on the subject of mercy-killing, it seems an unnecessary reflection on hospital authorities and discouragement to their patients to ...
John David Moor (1947 – 14 October 2000) [1] [2] was a British general practitioner who was prosecuted in 1999 for the euthanasia of a patient. He was found not guilty but admitted in a press interview to having helped up to 300 people to die. [3] He was the first doctor in Britain to be tried solely for the mercy killing of a patient. [4 ...
A Pennsylvania nurse already charged with killing two patients in her care through lethal doses of insulin has been hit with fresh charges after she confessed to trying to kill 19 people at ...
The lead detective on the case told Lee Williams, the Griffin Daily News crime reporter who broke the story, that he classified the murders as a "mercy killing." James Scott of Hampton, Georgia , Carr's only remaining son, who by that time also suffered from Huntington's disease, supported his mother and claimed that she acted out of love, not ...
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Good news out of Kansas City. A spokesperson at Children's Mercy Hospital said all 12 patients being treated there -- including nine children with gunshot wounds -- have been discharged."We have ...
Currently, euthanasia is illegal in Massachusetts. According to Ch. 201D §12 Massachusetts states that "Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to constitute, condone, authorize, or approve suicide or mercy killing or to permit any affirmative or deliberate act to end one's own life other than to permit the natural process of dying". [15]