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...torment without risking prosecution under French laws prohibiting assisted suicide. He repeated that plea in a book, I Ask You for the Right to Die. Though police say Humbert may face homicide charges, Justice Minister Dominique Perben urged "the largest degree of humanity be applied" in the case. The ordeal sparked new calls...
...James adds, the ordeal "made our family realize there was a civil rights movement going on and we could make Virgil's death be a part of that." It didn't exactly work out that way. The movement wanted Lorene Ware to hit the stump, but because speaking publicly about Virgil's killing was too painful for her, his story faded away, an obscure, salt-in-the-wound footnote to the Sixteenth Street Church bombing...
...devout Baptist, the verdict was a dissatisfying conclusion—or disappointing twist—to a five-month ordeal that has been marked by prayer with his family, a month-long hunger strike and the study of several languages...
...foster care, and officials told Watson, pregnant with her fifth child, that they would apply to place the baby in care at birth. "Why don't you just admit you like hurting your children?" a case worker urged her. Her voice quavering at the memory of her nightmarish ordeal, Watson insists that she has never harmed any of her children in any way. And so Lisa Watson (both her and her child's name have been changed) became one of hundreds of parents in the U.K. to be accused in recent years of making their children ill or pretending that...
...detained by Soviet authorities for several years in the 1980s for no crime but his activist Protestantism—and Andrew Okhotin and his supporters have said they have no choice but to wonder if lingering contempt for Protestants on the part of the Orthodox authorities is behind his ordeal this year...