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Ont. nurse on trial for disconnecting patient’s life support tells jury she didn’t know policy existed

May 17, 2017 WJN Administrator 0

BARRIE, Ont. — A Midland nurse on trial for disconnecting a patient’s life support testified she asked the doctors, nurses and her team leader, but “nobody” told her there was a hospital policy for end-of-life […]

Baby Charlie’s ‘devastated’ parents sob in court and scream out ‘no’ as judge rules doctors CAN turn off their son’s life support ‘to let him die with dignity’

April 11, 2017 WJN Administrator 0

Charlie Gard’s parents have been left ‘devastated’ after a judge today ignored their own wishes and ruled their son should die – but the couple have vowed to fight on to save his life. Heartbroken […]

‘We’re praying that he gets his chance’: Baby Charlie’s parents will find out today whether judge will allow him to go to America for lifesaving treatment

April 11, 2017 WJN Administrator 0

By MARTIN ROBINSON The parents of a sick baby Charlie Gard will today hear if their son’s life will be spared and said: ‘We’re praying that he gets his chance’. Chris Gard and Connie Yates […]

Wife wins right to turn off life support machine for Gulf War veteran husband

December 20, 2016 zoshinuk 0

By Richard Hartley-Parkinson for Metro.co.uk Doctors should stop providing life support treatment to a soldier-turned-policeman who was left in a coma after a road accident, a judge has ruled. Gulf War veteran Paul Briggs, who […]

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Report finds ‘clear human rights failures’ in southern Scotland

October 7, 2026 0

A new report has found “clear human rights failures” across the south of Scotland with basic obligations on food, health and housing not being met. The study was carried out over eight different local authority […]

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Christa Pike set to be first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years still alive after two lethal injections

October 1, 2026 0

A Tennessee death row inmate set to be the first woman to be executed by the state in more than 200 years is still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyers have said. […]

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Killer Christa Pike is to be executed within days – but her defence say she’s a victim too

September 27, 2026 0

Ashlee Sellars last heard from her friend Christa Pike earlier this week, when Pike texted her from her cell on death row as she prepares to be killed by lethal injection by the US state […]