mercy killing
Example Sentences
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Gross, in an essay, asked anyone who had said the murder of George Hodgins was understandable, anyone who had called it a “mercy killing,” to think about whether that San Diego mother had heard them.
From Los Angeles Times
She described mercy killing of the terminally ill an “incredibly important debate that we are not allowed to have simply because of where we live.”
From Seattle Times
“Corinne advised it wasn’t like she was trying to plan a mercy killing, she just could not watch her mother in all the pain.”
From Seattle Times
Waters, said that he thought his character’s death was “a kind of mercy killing.”
From New York Times
“In Peru, ‘mercy killing’ is crime carrying three years in jail, so any person or doctor who wants to help her would be committing a crime,” Public Defender Walter Gutiérrez said.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
