High court asked to weigh assisted suicide
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The Justice Department asked the US Supreme Court Tuesday to hear argument on whether federal anti-drug law can trump Oregon&#39;s assisted suicide law.
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One of the most agonising dilemmas ever to come before a judge - whether a baby should live or die - was outlined starkly and emotively in the high court yesterday.
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The US Supreme Court questioned on Wednesday whether world opinion against the death penalty for juveniles should influence its decision on the constitutionality of executing
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The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to block the nation&#39;s only law allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients die more quickly.
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The case of Terri Schiavo, which the Florida high court hears Tuesday, will help establish procedures in future cases.
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The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to void the nation&#39;s only law allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients take their own lives.
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The Supreme Court struggled today over whether the time has come to end the death penalty for young murderers. Two years ago, the court in a 6-3 decision struck down capital
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Doctors in the UK have asked a High Court judge to decide whether they have to keep a desperately ill baby alive if it stops breathing for a fourth time.
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The Supreme Court on Monday questioned whether state medical marijuana laws might be abused by people who arenât really sick as it debated whether the federal government can
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THE parents of a desperately ill baby girl yesterday challenged at a High Court hearing the view by doctors caring for her that, should her condition worsen, she should be left to die.
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The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to block the nation's only law allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients die more quickly.
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The Supreme Court said on Friday it  would decide whether the death penalty can be imposed for the  crime of raping a child, expanding its review of how capital  punishment is carried out in the United States.
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The US Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday as it prepares to decide whether it is unconstitutionally cruel to sentence 16- and 17-year old criminals to death.
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the Christopher Simmons case and consider a question that could affect 73 death-row inmates across the nation who committed their crimes before age 18: whether executing such inmates amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment," which is forbidden by the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment.
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The Supreme Court prepares to hear a case on lethal injections that could cause us to rethink our haphazard system of capital punishment
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A High Court judge is due to announce whether a seriously ill baby should be resuscitated if her condition worsens.
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The US Supreme Court is to hear a challenge to lethal injections that has halted executions for months.