Abortion doctor’s murder trial goes to Pa. jury
PHILADELPHIA – A jury began weighing murder charges Tuesday against a doctor charged with killing five people, including four viable babies allegedly born alive in what authorities describe as illegal, late-term abortions routinely performed at his clinic.
Kermit Gosnell, 72, faces the death penalty if convicted of killing babies born alive. A string of former clinic employees testified during the last two months, telling jurors that Gosnell cut live babies in the back of the neck to ensure they were dead.
Four of them have pleaded guilty to murder charges for the babies they say they killed or for helping sedate a 41-year-old patient who died of an overdose.
They accused Gosnell of killing two of the four babies, but he could be convicted in all four deaths if the jury deems him an accomplice or conspirator.
Markey, Gomez win Mass. Senate primaries
BOSTON – Democratic U.S. Rep. Edward Markey and Republican former Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez won their party primaries Tuesday, setting up a race between a 36-year veteran of Washington politics and a political newcomer for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by John Kerry.
Markey, of Malden, defeated fellow U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch of South Boston, in the Democratic primary while Gomez, a Cohasset businessman, bested former U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan and state Rep. Daniel Winslow in the GOP primary, according to unofficial returns. The special election is scheduled for June 25.
Associated Press
