Posted on 06/21/2007 4:08:20 PM PDT by wagglebee
NEW ORLEANS, June 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Nurses Cheri Landry and Lori Budo, who have admitted to administering lethal doses of medication to patients during the hurricane Katrina disaster, are being offered immunity from prosecution by the Louisiana Attorney General.
CNN reports that in two weeks the two will testify before a Grand Jury that four patients died after being administered what Louisiana's Attorney General, Charles Foti Jr., called a "lethal cocktail" of drugs.
In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane that devastated New Orleans in late August 2005, rumours began to fly around the internet world that patients were being killed by health care workers who wanted to flee the appalling conditions in the inner city New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center. Later, two doctors admitted that patients were euthanized, one doctor saying that he had fled the hospital rather than directly participate in killing patients.
The following July, one doctor and the two nurses were arrested and charged with four counts of second-degree murder for lethally injecting patients. Dr. Anna Pou, a head and neck surgeon who specializes in working with cancer patients, denied the charges insisting that she did not support euthanasia and claimed to have given only comfort care for the patients.
Court documents, however, assert that witnesses have testified that Dr. Pou and the two nurses took syringes full of drugs to a ward for the chronically-ill and injected four patients. 34 dead patients were found in Memorial following the Katrina disaster.
Foti told media, "We …spent almost 10 ½ months investigating and, after all of this, can only come to the conclusion that this crime had been committed."
Read previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
New Orleans Doctors Kill Patients Rather Than Leave Them to Looters, Then Flee
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/sep/05091205.html
Doctor Charged in Katrina Deaths Denies Committing Murder, Euthanasia
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/sep/06092502.html
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The witnesses were not in charge of evacuations. They were in charge of the patients, who were euthanized. The prosecution is not depending solely on their testimony. There are dead bodies.
The point is they should not have been there so that the accusation of a choice between a slow and painful death or comfort that may cause death is even an issue.
No, the point is, they were not in the hospital to be killed. If they shouldn’t have been in a hospital, where should they have been? The slaughter house? Or maybe you think they should have evacuated themselves? There was no justification for euthanizing them. None.
Troubling for sure but I’d like to know all of the circumstances, like how long after the hurricane hit did the alleged murders take place, what was the situation around the hospital at the time, what did the media make the staff think was the situation ... I can think of a few narrow cases where what happened could have been the best care possible.
Which is it? We shouldn’t believe they were euthanized because the witnesses failed to evacuate them, or it was right to euthanize them because somebody else should have evacuated them?
There was no need or justification for euthanizing them. None.
These nurses should have no trouble finding employment as executioners ... they certainly can’t make any claims that their medical ethics would be compromised.
They shouldn’t get “immunity.” They should get life without parole.
Irrelevant. The fact of the matter is they were left there to die. If the doctors made their death more comfortable, let it go at that. Don’t hold them responsible for having to deal with the neglect of others.
They did not “make their death more comfortable.” They caused their deaths. They killed them. How can you defend that?
So just kill all the patients who aren’t having a party? What do we need doctors for?
You want to judge the actions of these doctors while you sit in your air conditioned house with food in the refrigerator, clean water from the faucets, and emergency services a phone call away? Sometimes life is not all neat and tidy.
What do you know about my life? Nothing.
Murder is wrong. Always has been. Always will be. And no amount of bullshit can make it right.
If I lived in a mansion, it wouldn’t make it right for them to murder the patients. If I lived under a sewer grate, it wouldn’t make it right for them to murder the patients. It doesn’t matter how many storms I’ve lived through, or how many storms I’ve avoided by evacuating, murder is always wrong.
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