AUGUSTA — The concept of allowing terminally ill patients to end their own lives under a doctor’s supervision hit a roadblock Monday when the Senate voted 18-17 against it. The bill, LD 1270, would allow physician-assisted suicide in Maine but only with a range of caveats, including that the patient has to take lethal drugs […]
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Windham man in cyanide-by-mail case to use insanity defense
PORTLAND (AP) — A man with a history of mental illness who is accused of mailing an Englishman the cyanide he used to kill himself plans to use an insanity defense, according to court documents. Sidney P. Kilmartin, 52, has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the death of Andrew Denton, a depressed 49-year-old […]
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