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Florida Chronology 1996
- Dr. Ernesto Pinzon-Reyes of Highlands County, Florida was charged with murder for giving a lethal injection of morphine and potassium chloride to a terminally ill patient in October. He pled not guilty and consulted Kevorkian's Attorney Geoffrey Fieger. The patient had not asked to die and the family did not want an assisted suicide. The nurses refused to inject the dose of morphine, so the doctor did the injection.
1997
- The Florida Supreme Court ruled that a person does not have the right to physician-assisted suicide under the Florida state constitution. The court overturned a lower court's ruling that a privacy provision in Florida's state constitution gives a person the right to physician-assisted suicide.
Posted on June 26, 2004. |
