Kyoto – A Japanese district court on Tuesday sentenced 45-year-old doctor Yoshikazu Okubo to 18 years in prison for killing an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient at the request of the victim in 2019. Hiroshi Kawakami, presiding judge at Kyoto District Court, rejected the defense’s plea of not guilty, saying that Okubo’s act was socially … Read more
Kyoto – A Japanese district court on Tuesday sentenced 45-year-old doctor Yoshikazu Okubo to 18 years in prison for killing an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient at the request of the victim in 2019. Hiroshi Kawakami, presiding judge at Kyoto District Court, rejected the defense’s plea of not guilty, saying that Okubo’s act was socially … Read more
Former Dutch Prime Minister Dries van Agt and his wife Eugenie van Agt-Krekelberg died, on February 5, in unison by legal duo-euthanasia. The couple of seven decades chose to leave this life the same way they had started it- hand in hand and together! They were both 93.“In consultation with the immediate family, we announce … Read more
THE HAGUE: Dries van Agt, the Christian Democrat prime minister of the Netherlands from 1977 until 1982, has died by euthanasia, “hand in hand” together with his wife, according to the human rights organisation he founded. They both were 93.The news was made public on Friday by The Rights Forum, which said the couple died … Read more
The execution will be the first attempt to use a new execution method since the 1982 introduction of lethal injection, now the most common execution method in the United States. Alabama will be allowed to put an inmate to death with nitrogen gas, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. Alabama says it … Read more