Ohio hospital shooting: Mercy killing or murder?

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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Summit County Sheriff Department shows John Wise. Wise, partially disabled by nerve damage, watched a tear roll down the face of his wife, bedridden in intensive care since a stroke a week earlier and unable to speak, seemingly blinking to acknowledge him, and, perhaps, their agreement that they didn't want to live out their years bedridden and disabled, he told a friend. Now, Wise is facing charges of shooting her in the head in that hospital, presumably as a mercy killing. The aggravated murder charge against him raises a dilemma for the prosecution and defense: what's the appropriate punishment? (AP Photo/Summit County Sheriff Department, File)John Wise watched a tear roll down his wife's face as he stood alongside her bed in the intensive care unit. She'd been unable to speak after suffering a stroke and seemed to be blinking to acknowledge him, Wise confided to a friend who had driven him to the hospital.

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