Read a Feb. 9, 2013, Associated Press story about legalization proposals in Kansas and a number of other states.

Read an April 16, 2013, Huffington Post column by Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association, on the need for regulated assisted suicide.

Read a June 4, 2013, Christian News Network story about Maine’s House of Representatives overwhelmingly rejecting a bill that would legalize physician-assisted suicide.

Read a June 14, 2013, Wall Street Journal story about proposed changes to Belgium’s euthanasia law to make it more widely available, potentially even to gravely ill teenagers.

Read a July 1, 2013, Reuters blog post about the debate in France over whether to legalize voluntary euthanasia.

Sandra Marshall is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Stirling. She is interested in research which connects legal, political and social philosophy. She is a member of the Humanist Philosophers Group.

Prison Fellowship Ministries reaches out to prisoners, ex-prisoners, victims, and their families, and promotes biblical standards of justice in the criminal justice system.

The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee is a voluntary, nonsectarian organization working to advance justice throughout the world.

The Center for Public Justice is a Christian-democratic organization dedicated to public policy research, leadership development, and civic education.