article_snippet: ‘clear and convincing’.
article_snippet: The boys were bad enough.
article_snippet: I waited until The boys were asleep, the same with Liv.
article_snippet: This was [not] a mercy killing in the sense in which that phrase is normally used.
article_snippet: The children did not ask to be killed and you did not, and do not, seek to justify your actions as being justified in mercy.
article_snippet: What you did was the product of your mental illness.