Situation: You are selected for a jury in a trial of a 64-year-old mother who ki

Situation: You are selected for a jury in a trial of a 64-year-old mother who killed her two adult sons. The two men had Huntington’s disease, a degenerative brain disease, and were institutionalized. They were certain to die and would endure much pain and suffering before they expired. The defendant’s husband had died from this same disease, and she had nursed him throughout his illness until his death.
The defendant took a gun into the nursing home, kissed her sons’ good-bye, and then shot them both through the head. She was arrested for first-degree murder. The prosecutor informs you that there is no “mercy killing” defense in the law as it is written.
If you were on the jury, how would you decide this case? What punishment does she serve? (See “Justice Tempered with Mercy,” by K. Ellington, Houston Chronicle, January 30, 2003, 10A. The prosecutor accepted a plea of guilty to assisting suicide.)
Instructions:
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