Aussie Pro-Deathers: Law Is "Miscarriage of Justice"

Here’s how pressure builds from the pro-deathers, in this case in Australia. Man convicted under the law of assisting in a suicide. Family calls it a “miscarriage of justice.” I call it justice served.

Family in despair at jailing of Merin Nielsen for assisting in suicide

THE family of former teacher Merin Nielsen, the first Queensland man to be jailed for assisting in a suicide, have labelled the court's decision a "miscarriage of justice".

Nielsen, 50, was jailed for three years by Brisbane Supreme Court Justice Jean Dalton yesterday after a jury found him guilty of helping his elderly friend Frank Ward, 76, to kill himself at Clayfield on June 20, 2009. more