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Man Who Stole Drugs and Killed Father With Them Gets Praise, Suspended Sentence from English Judge

John Cronin

The elderly father wasn't physically ill, but after the death of his wife and dog didn't want to live anymore, so his son stole morphine and insulin from a pharmacy and gave them to his father so he would die. The judge was impressed by the son's mercy and gave him a suspended sentence, with no jail time; the defendant's lawyer said in court:  "what we have is a man who wanted to die, not because he was terribly ill but, sadly, because he had just had enough of life."

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Inside the Sexual Harassment Process of Congress, With John Conyers

John Cronin

U. S. Representative John Conyers, 88, a Democrat from Michigan, has been accused of sexual harassment by multiple women who formerly worked on his staff. BuzzFeed has a story about a particular case with documents showing the process Congress uses to secretly settle such cases using public funds, with the following statement from a spokesman for the Office of Compliance, which handles the process:  "Pursuant to the Congressional Accountability Act, the OOC cannot comment on whether matters have or have not been filed with the office."

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