Prescriptions for life-ending medications under Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act increased last year, while the number of ...

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The new figures were released Thursday by the Oregon Health Authority, which compiles data on patient prescription requests and deaths under Oregon’s 27-year-old Death With Dignity law. The law ...

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Idaho counts nine prisoners on its death row, but hasn’t carried out the death penalty in more than a dozen years. The state failed last year in its attempt to perform a lethal injection when ...