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...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 Dr. Sander...
...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...
Tomorrow afternoon the case will almost certainly go to the jury. They will have to decide whether Mrs. Abbie Borroto died last December from cancer or from the 27 to 40 cc's of air that Dr. Hermann N. Sander injected in an "irrational...
...Ford who, on January 21, performed the autopsy on the exhumed body of Mrs. Abbie Borroto. The state claims that Sander ended Mrs. Borroto's life as an act of merey, by injecting 40 cubic centimeters of air into the veins of his cancer stricken patient...
...That Dr. Sander's hypodermic needle didn't enter the vein in Mrs. Boroto's arm, because the vein had collapsed...