Word: borroto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...county court, there was no argument over whether "mercy" killing was or was not justified; the moral issue of euthanasia had been taken out of the case. The argument last week was whether life had not already left the wasted body of 59-year-old Abbie Borroto when Dr. Hermann Sander injected air into her veins. The defense argued that life had previously fled, that Sander therefore could not be charged with her death. The prosecution contended that her pathetic body, which had now become a piece of impersonal evidence in a public medical argument, still contained life when...
...witness stand, Mrs. Borroto's private nurse, Elizabeth Rose, repudiated an earlier statement that she was certain Abbie Borroto was already dead (TIME, March 6). There had been short gasps from the body on the bed, "a louder gasp" when Dr. Sander inserted the needle, she said. Other hospital attendants attested to "muscular twitchings"; two doctors declared that an air embolism could have been lethal; other witnesses testified that Dr. Sander had indicated by his remarks that he himself thought he had ended a dwindling life...
...Selfless. Dr. Albert Snay took the stand for the defense. He had examined Abbie Borroto just before his friend Dr. Sander came into the room. He had found no pulse, no corneal reflex when he touched the eye, the skin was cold, he had heard no heartbeat. He met Dr. Sander in the doorway, he said, and told him that the patient was gone...
Prosecutor Phinney spent much of the morning belittling Ford's medical experience and hinting that he had withheld some of Mrs. Borroto's remains from State experts. In answer to this last attack, the defense was forced to produce a three-foot vein from her exhumed body and show it to the jury during lunch recess...
Miller testified that it is possible to pierce a collapsed vein with a hypodermic needle, and that it is often done. He also said that the blood elots had formed after Mrs. Borroto's death, so that the vein was never blocked...