Mercy Killing

Celebrity lawyer discovers new species of mercy killing

Michael Cook | 27 August 2011

The celebrity criminal lawyer who defended Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, Jim Bakker, Claus von Bülow and O.J. Simpson has come up with a novel mercy killing defence. Giji Jordan, a millionaire single mother, gave her son Jude a cocktail of drugs in an up-market Manhattan hotel in February last year. Her lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, a professor at Harvard Law School, says that this is not a case of murder, but justifiable altruistic filicide.

Swedish doctor charged with mercy killing

Jared Yee | 15 April 2011

A Swedish paediatrician originally cleared in the 2008 mercy killing of a terminally ill infant will face charges of manslaughter, according to prosecutors in Sweden.

Assisted suicide or murder?

Jared Yee | 25 February 2011

Bizarre turn of events leads to second-degree murder charge

Man sentenced to life in prison says killing daughter was “right thing to do”

Jared Yee | 25 February 2011

Killed his 12-year-old disabled daughter

Spanish retirement home orderly admits killing 11

Jared Yee | 03 December 2010

The suffering patients needed peace

Did a French nurse euthanase patients?

Michael Cook | 03 December 2010

No big deal for radio talk-back

Elderly man allegedly shot sick wife to death in ‘‘mercy killing’’ at nursing home

Jared Yee | 26 November 2010

Man suspected of killing wife of almost 70 years

Mercy killing is still murder, says British court

Michael Cook | 21 November 2010

Tragic case of Francis Inglis

“Mercy killing” on the battlefield is still murder, Canadian court finds

Michael Cook | 24 July 2010

Captain Robert Semrau could be jailed for 5 years

A day in the life of a celebrity chef

Michael Cook | 04 June 2010

Weird combination of IVF and euthanasia

Canadian soldier accused of “mercy killing” of wounded Taliban

Michael Cook | 27 March 2010

Captain speaks of implicit pact

A Southern Gothic lesson in bioethics

Michael Cook | 20 March 2010

“Mercy killing” in Tennessee

Devoted mothers in English “mercy killings”

Michael Cook | 22 January 2010

Internet comes in handy