PHILADELPHIA — Dr. Kermit Gosnell was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison without parole for the murder of a baby born alive in a botched abortion, who prosecutors said would have survived if the doctor had not “snipped” its neck with scissors.
The sentence was part of an agreement that Dr. Gosnell reached
with the Philadelphia district attorney’s office under which he waives
his right to appeal the first-degree murder conviction and two others
that a jury returned on Monday.
Under the agreement, Dr. Gosnell, 72, will be spared the death penalty, which prosecutors previously said they would seek.
Dr. Gosnell, in a dark suit similar to one he wore throughout his
five-week trial, declined an offer by Judge Jeffrey P. Minehart of
Common Pleas Court to speak to the court before being sentenced.
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