In our opinion: Assisting in suicide should have legal recourse

Occasionally, someone commits a crime so heinous and disturbing it leads to demands for specific changes in law. Such is the case in Utah in the wake of the suicide of a 16-year-old girl and the efforts of a young man accused of helping, abetting and encouraging her.
A bill before the Utah Legislature would add assisted suicide to the state's manslaughter statute. That is an appropriate measure that could give law enforcement authorities more prosecutorial leverage.
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