mercy killing

Hunter denies the charge, with his lawyers arguing it was a mercy killing after Janice, his wife of more than 50 years, begged him to end her torment.

The only pathway to saving our republic goes through the electoral mercy killing of the Republican Party, and the only savior is the one you see in the mirror.

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.

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.”

It was deemed a "mercy killing," with all the sensationalized press coverage and impassioned public debate a case like that tends to spark.