Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
Pierre Beck |
Swissinfo reported on December 9, 2021 that Switzerland's Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Beck on a technicality.
On Thursday, the Federal Court in Lausanne overturned this decision. Although judges were divided about the legality and nuances of the case, a majority of three against two concluded that Beck could not be found guilty under the Federal Act on Medicinal Products, but that the case should go back to the cantonal court in Geneva and be examined under the Federal Act on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, which includes pentobarbital.Beck admitted to assisting the suicide of an 86-year-old healthy woman because she wanted to die with her husband.
1 comment:
This sounds sexist to me. Would he have done the same for a widower?
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