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August 9, 2024
Alabama settles lawsuit with death row inmate
The office of Alabama’s attorney general has settled a federal lawsuit filed by death row inmate Alan Miller over the state’s plan for him to become the second known person in the nation to be executed using nitrogen gas. The terms of the settlement are confidential and the inmate’s lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice, meaning […]
July 28, 2024
Sean Davison Arrested in the UK
On the eve of taking up his new position as head of Pegasos Swiss Association in Switzerland (a fact unknown to Exit), former Exit Swiss program coordinator, Sean Davison, has been arrested at his home in Bournemouth in the UK. Sean has been charged with assisting with the suicide of a UK woman (name withheld) […]
July 28, 2024
Sth African euthanasia activist arrested again in UK
South African euthanasia activist Dr Sean Davison has been arrested for the third time on charges of assisted suicide, this time in the UK. Davison was arrested on 15 July after accompanying a 79-year-old English woman to the Pegasos clinic in Switzerland, where she was assisted in suicide at her request on 29 June. Professor […]
July 28, 2024
First Use of Sarco Aborted
In July 2024, The Last Resort withdrew access to the Sarco for ‘Person X’. Person X had previously been expected to be the first person to use the device. The anticipated Sarco death of Person X (a mid 50s woman from the US) on 17 July has been permanently postponed. This withdrawal followed increasing concerns […]
July 21, 2024
“Press Button To Die” Switzerland To Soon Use Portable Suicide Pods
The person wishing to die must first pass a psychiatric assessment of their mental capacity. Zurich, Switzerland An assisted dying group expects a portable suicide pod to be used for the first time in Switzerland, potentially within months, providing death without medical supervision, it said Wednesday. The space-age-looking Sarco capsule, first unveiled in 2019, replaces […]
July 7, 2024
CLW Activists Escape Jail Time
Two of the six former members of the Coöperatie Laatste Wil (CLW) were this week found guilty of distributing Middel X (sodium azide) amongst their members. According to a Dutch Court in the southern city of Arnhem, these six activists formed a criminal organisation to enable assisted suicide. All those charged were over the age […]
