05/29/2026
Poison seller Kenneth Law pleads guilty to counselling or aiding su***de, in connection with 14 deaths in Ontario. Law operated websites that sold toxic substances and su***de paraphernalia.
Summary:
➡️ Mississauga, Ont., man Kenneth Law pleaded guilty in a Newmarket court today to counselling or aiding 14 su***des in the province.
➡️ Law operated websites that sold packets of a toxic substance and other su***de paraphernalia to vulnerable people. ➡️ Court today heard a list of some 40 countries Law shipped more than 1,200 packages to, while a CBC News investigation has found Law is suspected of being tied to at least 147 deaths worldwide.
➡️ Crown prosecutors said today they were withdrawing all 14 murder charges laid against Law.
➡️ In the U.K., investigators said Law will not face charges for his alleged role in scores of deaths there.
➡️ At least one family in Canada says they're livid that Law avoided murder charges, while U.K. families are angry over the decision not to charge him in that country.
Kenneth Law is rightly being condemned for assisting in the death of vulnerable people. Yet Canada is increasingly offering euthanasia to people experiencing suffering, disability, or despair. If we recognize that these lives had value and were worth protecting, we should ask why one form of assisted death is treated as a crime while another is treated as compassion?