2005 Rhode Island Code - § 11-60-3 — Prevention of assisted suicide.

    An individual or licensed health care practitioner who with the purpose of assisting another person to commit suicide knowingly:

   (1) Provides the physical means by which another person commits or attempts to commit suicide; or

   (2) Participates in a physical act by which another person commits or attempts to commit suicide is guilty of a felony and upon conviction may be punished by imprisonment for up to ten (10) years, by a fine of up to ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or both.

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