Assassination of George Tiller of violence during a telephone interview with anti-abortion activist David Leach. Tiller's murder inspired an episode of the television legal drama "Law & Order" entitled "Dignity". In that episode, an anti-abortion activist murdered a doctor who performed late-term abortions in New York. The defense said it was a justifiable homicide, since the murderer did it in order to prevent the doctor from performing a late-term abortion upon a specific woman, hence, he did it in defense of another human being. In the end, the jury decided that the defendant was guilty of murder in the first degree. The episode's reception
What the Dead Men Say What the Dead Men Say "What the Dead Men Say" is a science fiction novella by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in "Worlds of Tomorrow" magazine in June 1964. The manuscript, originally titled "Man With a Broken Match", was received by Dick's agent on 15 April 1963. Death is followed by a period of 'half-life', a short amount of time which can be rationed out over long periods in which the dead can be revived—so that, potentially, they can 'live' on for a long time. When attempts to bring back important businessman Louis Sarapis fail, it's clearly more