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Senator Feingold renews push for 'Conrad's Law' to criminalize coerced suicide
Summary
Senator Nick Collins? (transcript: Senator Feingold) introduced H.1748 / S.1109 — known as "Conrad's Law" — to create a criminal offense for coercing another person into dying by suicide; testimony emphasized teen suicide trends and sought a narrowly tailored statute to give prosecutors a specific tool.
Senator (filed speaker) urged the Joint Committee on the Judiciary to consider H.1748 / S.1109, legislation sometimes described as “Conrad’s Law,” which would make it a crime to coerce another person to die by suicide.
The bill’s sponsor described the law as narrowly tailored to allow prosecutors a discrete charge for coercing suicide rather than relying solely on involuntary…
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