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[unusual] Criminal

Let me give you something to think about. It will come under the subject of 'unusual'.

You and a friend leave a country where euthanasia is illegal. You both travel to a country where euthanasia is legal. You perform the act on your friend based on consent. You return back to the county where euthanasia is illegal.

Question is...

Are you a criminal?

Criminal unusual

As far as I understand you are not accountable by the Law, now I don't think that just because the law doesn't find you guilty it means you are not....

[unusual] Criminal History & Civil Business Politics

In the US, you could be charged with "conspiracy to commit murder", which is a felony, and is frequently used.

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I agree with LDS_Forever. Technically you wouldn't be a criminal because when you are in the other country you're subject to their laws. I have friends who enjoy going to countries where drugs are legal to get high or going to other states so that they can gamble at a younger age. Doesn't mean it necessarily makes it right, but it is legal.

Criminal unusual

What I was trying to say is that conspiracy is a punishable crime. I think that there have been cases of people being convicted in the US for conspiracy, because they committed the crimes outside of US jurisdiction. Since they conspired in the US, they were charged and convicted in the US.

[unusual] Criminal

I think is a good law if it used in the right way, but I think that in a situation like the thread describes then I would totally agree with charging the person on conspiracy to commit murder and making him/her pay some time in jail.

[unusual] Criminal

Another possible slant to this is if the two became citizens of the country in which euthanasia is legal. One can plan anything anywhere and carry out said plans elsewhere. Look at how many corporations are created in America, but headquartered overseas.

Does the situation change based on citizenship? What about dual citizenship?

[unusual] Criminal Politics Business Civil & History

What a tough decision, but are these doctors and nurses really 'criminals'? They had the best intent, but sometimes the law does not recognize good intentions simply because 'the law, is the law'.

Doctors Accused of Euthanasia of Hurricane Katrina Victims

New Orleans, LA (LifeNews.com) -- As doctors fled the city of New Orleans, ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and overcome by looters, chaos and disease, a leading British newspaper says doctors treating severely wounded patient euthanized them rather than transport them to another facility for additional treatment. Emergency worker William "Forest" McQueen told the London Daily Mail, "Those who had no chance of making it were given a lot of morphine and lain down in a dark place to die." McQueen, a utility worker from a New Orleans suburb, told relatives of those who died that doctors had them "put down" and said medical officials "injected them, but nurses stayed with them until they died." Euthanasia and assisted suicide are illegal in Louisiana as well as every other state in the country, except for Oregon, where doctors may aide patients in killing themselves. Though the newspaper kept the doctors' names anonymous, it interviewed one physician who said, "I didn't know if I was doing the right thing. But I did not have time." "I had to make snap decisions, under the most appalling circumstances, and I did what I thought was right," the doctor told the London newspaper.
Ref. https://www.lifenews.com/nat1610.html