A Drug Dealer who Gave a College Student Opioids to End Her Life was Sentenced to 24 Years

“What’s conceptually difficult is that you do have the suicide victim who is ultimately making a decision for him or herself,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Washington Post. “And so it’s harder to say that the perpetrator’s conduct directly caused the death when the victim has made a choice — a relatively autonomous choice — to take his or her own life.”