lethal dose

An Australian woman accused of murdering relatives with beef Wellington documented herself using kitchen scales to calculate a lethal dose of toxic mushrooms, prosecutors allege.

Once authorised, the lethal dose would be self-administered by the patient; or by a medical assistant if the patient were incapable.

April plans to be in a "big comfy bed" for what she calls a "celebratory" moment when a medical professional will inject a lethal dose into her bloodstream.

“We take a different approach where we try to identify the person who furnished the lethal dose and hold them accountable.”

Many of his victims were elderly women who died after he injected them with lethal doses of diamorphine.