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Senator Feingold presses for 'Conrad's Law' to criminalize coercion to die by suicide
Summary
Senator Jacobin Feingold urged the Judiciary Committee to enact 'Conrad's Law' (H.17‑48/S.11‑09), a narrowly tailored statute criminalizing coercion of another person to die by suicide, arguing it would provide prosecutors a clear tool distinct from involuntary manslaughter and that numerous other states have adopted similar statutes.
Senator [last name used in transcript as] Feingold told the Joint Committee on the Judiciary he filed H.17‑48/S.11‑09, called “Conrad’s Law,” to make it unlawful to intentionally coerce another person into dying by suicide.
Feingold said the bill was developed with the Roy family and academic counsel after the Michelle Carter case and related prosecutions exposed a…
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