Doctors at the BMA's annual conference in Liverpool this month voted overwhelmingly against supporting a motion "allowing the choice of an assisted death by patients who are terminally ill and who have mental capacity".
Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman -- whose office responded to the shooting at the Hermans' home -- said he believes the mother and her two children were in a life-and-death situation and she had no choice but to exercise her constitutional right to self-defense.
Because most Americans still support the death penalty in principle, abolitionists have had little choice but to welcome reform, even if it means improving a system they oppose.
He told reporters at last week's European Union summit that it would be "a particularly pertinent choice" in time for the 50th anniversary of the author's death in January.
She had an unexpected donor to one of her causes this year: The U.K.'s Daily Mail published an apology--and made a donation to a charity of Safra's choice--after running a libelous article suggesting she'd been involved in her husband's death.