Monday, May 13, 2013

Kermit #Gosnell Convicted on Three Counts of First-Degree Murder

At the Philadelphia Inquirer, "Abortion doctor Gosnell found guilty on 3 counts of 1st-degree murder":
Kermit Barron Gosnell - the West Philadelphia doctor whose career in urban medicine began during the "war on poverty" and ended 40 years later as a hated symbol of the antiabortion movement - was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder Monday by a Philadelphia jury.

The jury acquitted Gosnell of one count of first-degree murder involving an infant prosecutors said was born alive and killed during an abortion.

In Pennsylvania, first-degree murder - the premeditated, malicious killing of a person - is punishable by death by lethal injection or life in prison without chance of parole.
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