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While the clemency issue in Illinois was being settled last week, Governor Bob Graham of Florida was pondering the possibility of having to make an equally knotty decision: What to do about the life sentence imposed on Roswell Gilbert? The 75-year-old retired electronics engineer had been convicted of first-degree murder in the mercy killing of his wife Emily, 73. "It's awful," said Gilbert after the sentence was handed down two weeks ago. "It's the end of my life." Declared Martha Moran, 50, the Gilberts' only child: "I don't want to see my daddy...
...Gilbert's conviction and draconian sentence -- he will not be eligible for parole for 25 years -- caused outrage across Florida. Pressure has been building on Governor Graham to commute Gilbert's sentence, and he has instructed his legal staff to begin researching the case...
...Emily Gilbert was afflicted with Alzheimer's disease, which causes severe mental deterioration. She also suffered from osteoporosis, a bone disease that frequently leads to fractures and pain. On March 4 her husband fulfilled what he said were his wife's wishes when he pumped two bullets from his 9-mm Luger into her temple as she lay on the sofa in their Fort Lauderdale condominium. Then he turned himself...
Convinced that his action was justified, Gilbert refused to plea-bargain and left his fate in the hands of a ten-woman, two-man Broward County jury. No one was more surprised than he when it returned after four hours of deliberation with a first- degree murder verdict. "I still don't feel like I committed a crime," Gilbert said afterward. "This just shows that the laws have to be changed...
...clarity, compassion and cliches: "He had sired three sons. But his daughter was the apple of his eye." Rossi squanders his gifts to feed an addiction for applause; Keller very nearly makes it to the top in the State Department before he cracks under the weight of his past; Gilbert starts out like John McEnroe and ends up resembling Paul Newman in Exodus; and Lambros outpreppies the Lands' End catalog. Everybody pays a high price for success, except Eliot, who pays for his failures. To compare The Class with The Group, Mary McCarthy's 1963 best seller of eight Vassar...