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Data on life sciences reported by researchers at Catholic University, Institute of Legal Medicine

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, January 19th, 2007

Investigators publish new data in the report "Death due to railway-related suicidal decapitation: a case report. In Italy, railway-related deaths give rise to extensive inquiries because it is mandatory for the public prosecutor to investigate the circumstances of death. For the railway embankment, normal traffic rules are not valid and the guilt of the engine driver usually cannot be proven," investigators in Rome, Italy report.

"Consequently, these cases are very often declared as suicides without adequate evidence. Furthermore, there is a potential risk of confusion with homicide, body dismemberment or mutilation," wrote Giorgio F. De and colleagues, Catholic...

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