Word: sanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his wife beside him, Dr. Hermann Sander, the "mercy killer" of a cancer patient, stood before a court in Manchester, N.H. As the central figure in a deep and troubled discussion, he also stood before the world. His case had stirred up discussion in London, Vatican City, corner drugstores and church pulpits...
Euthanasia societies saw it as proof of the need for laws that would make such killings legal. Sander's neighbors in the town of Candia (pop. 965) saw him as a sympathetic figure; 605 of them signed a testimonial expressing their faith in the 41-year-old doctor who had ended the life and suffering of a dying woman by giving her intravenous injections of air (TIME, Jan. 9). But his longtime friend, Attorney General William Phinney, saw Sander as a killer who must answer for his deed before...
...Thou Shalt Not Kill' is a 'law of God' that convicts Dr. Sander of murder," cried Harvard's Anthropologist Earnest Hooton, "let us have done with such a savage and subhuman deity and substitute a God of mercy and loving-kindness...
...good many people seemed to feel no interest at all in the moral point involved, simply wondered why Dr. Sander had committed the indiscretion of jotting his action on the record. County Medical Referee Robert E. Biron explained that it was the only clue to Dr. Sander's irregularity.: "Had he omitted that notation it would have been impossible to detect the cause of death as an air injection...
When reporters asked Dr. -Sander why he had made the notation, he refused to answer. At week's end, he was freed on $25,000 bail; a doctor and two insurance men signed a bond after judge and prosecutor agreed that he need not remain imprisoned. Said the doctor: ". . . Ultimately my position will be vindicated...