Word: sanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult thing to ask for-particularly for me. But if we are to live in a society of laws, the people within that society must abide by those laws." And so last week the state of New Hampshire demanded the conviction of 41-year-old Dr. Hermann Sander, accused of the mercy killing of a dying cancer patient...
...defense attorney, white-haired Louis E. Wyman, had fumbled with his thoughts and fumbled with his papers during his summation. Tears were in his eyes as he finished. There had been no murder, he said, and euthanasia was not, therefore, an issue. Rather, as Dr. Sander had testified, 59-year-old Mrs. Abbie Borroto was already dead when he injected air ("Why I did it, I can't tell") into her wasted...
...after listening to the judge's careful charge, the jury filed out. Inside the little red brick courthouse at Manchester, N.H. Dr. Sander sat with his arm around his wife...
...newsmen covering the Manchester trial, as to many readers of their Page-One stories, the controversy and the drama had ended with the cross-examination of the first witnesses. The defense contention that Mrs. Borroto was dead when Dr. Sander injected air into her veins (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had virtually eliminated the great moral issue that had stirred up the original excitement. "Our biggest problem," wailed one reporter last week, "is to give managing editors the kind of story they want"-a story that was no longer really there...
With the nation's interest in the rights & wrongs of "mercy killing" quickened by the trial of Dr. Hermann Sander (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), a doctor in Cambridge, Mass, last week offered, in a letter to the editor of the New York Times, some purely professional objections to legalized euthanasia...