Louisiana is planning to carry out its first execution in 15 years using a highly contested nitrogen gassing method that it doesn’t even permit to be used against dying cats and dogs under state law.

Swiss police confiscated a controversial “Sarco” euthanasia pod after a person died using it for the first time. The incident reportedly took place on Monday (September 23) afternoon near a cabin in a ...

Assisted suicide has undergone many iterations, from physician-assisted lethal injections to indirect euthanasia, where high doses of morphine are administered to ease the pain—and suppress a person’s ...