Bush Administration Challenges Oregon&#39;s Assisted-Suicide Law
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Before resigning from his post as attorney general, John Ashcroft asked the US Supreme Court to set aside Oregonâs assisted suicide law, the only one of its kind in the nation.
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TALLAHASSEE Â· In a last-ditch legal effort, attorneys for Gov. Jeb Bush asked the US Supreme Court on Wednesday to uphold a Florida law designed to keep a brain-damaged woman alive.
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Florida's Supreme Court heard arguments in the right-to-die case of a severely brain-damaged woman whose feeding tube was removed but later reinserted after state Governor Jeb Bush intervened.
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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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In an interview, Jack Kevorkian says he will no longer advise terminally ill people how to die. But he still combatively advocates physician-assisted suicide.
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal on Monday by two advocacy groups arguing that dying patients have a constitutional right to access experimental drugs that have not received regulatory approval.
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THE death of a 13-year-old English boy from an overdose of heroin is a grim reminder of the social cost of what United States President George W. Bush lauded last June as &#39;the first victory in the war on terror&#39;.
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Experts debate whether people at the end of life should be able to take experimental drug treatments.
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For nearly a decade, Dr. Jack Kevorkian waged a defiant campaign to help other people kill themselves. The retired pathologist left bodies at hospital emergency rooms and motels and videotaped a death that was broadcast on CBS' "60 Minutes." His actions prompted battles over assisted suicide in many states.
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A man trying to carry out what he claims are his wife's wishes in a long-running right-to-die case asked two courts Tuesday to stop delaying the removal of a feeding tube that helps keep the woman alive.
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Several doctors and a group supporting English as the nation&#39;s official language have filed a lawsuit challenging a Clinton-era executive order requiring federally funded hospitals, clinics and doctors to offer translation services for
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The US Supreme Court will on Monday take up the thorny issue of lethal injections in a bid to determine if this method of executing death-row inmates conforms with the constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishment.
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Campaigners calls for urgent government action to ensure everyone with a terminal illness can access hospice care.
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Florida's Governor Jeb Bush asked the US Supreme Court to intervene to keep a comatose woman alive, over the wishes of her husband, who wants to disconnect the feeding tube that has sustained her for 14 years.
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WASHINGTON - Seeking to void the nation&#39;s only right-to-die law, outgoing Attorney General John Ashcroft asked the Supreme Court yesterday to give federal agents the authority to punish Oregon doctors who help their dying patients end their lives.
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The Florida Supreme Court questioned lawyers Tuesday about the extent of the power handed to Gov. Jeb Bush under a law that let him order the reinsertion of a brain-damaged woman's feeding tube.
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The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a  setback on Monday to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's efforts to  intervene to keep a severely brain-damaged woman on life  support despite the wishes of her husband.