John B. Kelly Testimony in strong opposition to AB2x 15 September 3, 2015 Members of the Finance Committee: If you are opposed to the death penalty, I hope you will have second thoughts about legalized assisted suicide. Yes, there is a committed group of proponents who believe that assisted suicide would benefit them, and many […]
An interesting op ed appeared in the Times of Trenton late last month, comparing death penalty and assisted suicide laws. H. John Witman III is a retired attorney who practiced for nearly 20 years in the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. He is a member of the board of directors of the Progressive Center […]
Back on April 1, 1998 I sent out an obviously bogus press release from an email address I reserved for just such purposes. It was an attempt at some (I thought) outrageous satire, taking pro-assisted suicide arguments based on “quality of life” to one of their many logical conclusions. What would happen, I wondered, when […]
Wesley Smith has two related pieces on an op-ed by a death row prisoner that was published in the NY Times on March 6th. Christian Longo, who admits to being guilty of killing his wife and three children, wrote to the newspaper to promote voluntary organ donation by death row prisoners. In Wesley’s first blog […]
Sometimes I think I’ve lost the capacity to be surprised by new developments. I tend to think I’ve grown so jaded that nothing that comes up can really surprise me. I think that in spite of the fact that I do get surprised on occasion. This week’s collision with surrealism came in the form of […]
