“Girls Gone Wild” creator Joe Francis to jury: “You should be euthanized”

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:20:00 +0000

"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis, who faces up to five years of imprisonment after being found guilty of misdemeanor counts of assault and false imprisonment, has a message for the jury. In an exclusive interview with the Hollywood Reporter, he said:

"I want that jury to know that each and every one of you are mentally f--ing retarded and you should be euthanized because, as Darwin said, you have naturally selected yourself," he shouts. "You are the weakest members of the herd. Goodbye! And if that jury wants to convict me because I didn't show up, which is the only reason why they did, then, you know, they should all be lined up and shot!"

He continues:

"The problem with the jury system is that anyone who's not smart enough to come with an excuse to get out of jury duty doesn't get out," he continues. "Only the stupidest of the stupidest people end up on juries, you know? I've never met a smart person who's done jury duty."

Legal assisted suicide does not promote death wishes

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:36:00 +0000

A new psychology study has found that the legality of assisted suicide does not increase a population's propensity toward death wishes.

The study, published in Frontiers in Psychology for Clinical Settings, looked at a small test group of patients suffering from Lou Gehrig's Disease in Switzerland -- a country where assisted suicide is legal if a terminal patient "has decisional capacity and the person assisting is not motivated by reasons of self-interest."

The report found that a "liberal legal setting" like that of Switzerland "does not necessarily promote the wish for assisted suicide." However, patients were found to be more willing to discuss the option with caregivers.

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“Girls Gone Wild” creator Joe Francis to jury: “You should be euthanized”

Legal assisted suicide does not promote death wishes