Prominent QC calls for voluntary euthanasia law review
The ABC News (online 20th May 2006) advised that a prominent Perth barrister, Tom Percy QC, has told the ABC TV’s Stateline program that he advocates a wholesale review of criminal laws governing voluntary euthanasia, which currently attract a charge of murder. Mr Percy stated euthanasia is a sad fact of life and in some case it may well be justified. He also stated that if it is to remain a criminal offence it falls into the same category as that recognised for infanticide which attracts a lesser penalty than that of wilful murder.
