Canadian who sold lethal chemical online pleads guilty to aiding suicides

IN BRIEF Canadian man Kenneth Law sent 1,209 packages containing sodium nitrate to customers in 41 countries. These packages aided suicides globally. A Canadian man who sold a legal but potentially deadly chemical online to dozens of people who took their own lives has pleaded guilty to aiding suicide. The plea ended the prospect of a murder trial in a case with international reach.

Canadian who sold lethal chemical online pleads guilty to aiding suicides. IN BRIEF Canadian man Kenneth Law sent 1,209 packages containing sodium nitrate to customers in 41 countries. These packages aided suicides globally. A Canadian man who sold a legal but potentially deadly chemical online to dozens of people who took their own lives has pleaded guilty to aiding suicide. The plea ended the prospect of a murder trial in a case with international reach. Kenneth Law, 60, operated four companies with websites through which he marketed and sold sodium nitrite and other items, including masks, hoods and regulators, that were used by the purchasers to take their own lives. Sodium nitrite, a salt used in low concentrations as a food additive to cure processed meats, can be deadly when ingested in high concentrations. On Friday, Law pleaded g...