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Kelson teaches Spike how to grow beyond his parents, giving Isla a mercy killing and allowing Spike to place her skull on the top of the structure.—Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025 While this was a funeral rite for some in the Roman period, the researchers think the man was decapitated as a mercy killing after the lion bite.—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025 If the mercy killing wasn’t a big enough of a twist, the introduction of three outsiders who stumble upon the girls’ cannibalistic feast will do it.—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025 Consider this review a mercy killing.—The New York Times, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025 More secrets emerge, Chappelle says there’s no time to explain, even mercy killing the dog.—Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 19 Jan. 2025 DJ Anne Harris is largely focused on mercy killing her relationship with Siobhan for Siobhan’s own good.—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 May 2021 The doctor carried out the mercy killing with her family’s consent and support.—Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019 The woman later gave mixed signals about her desire to die, but the doctor, in close consultation with the woman’s family, decided to go ahead with the mercy killing.—Mike Corder, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
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