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By Dave Warner
PHILADELPHIA | Mon May 6, 2013 4:32pm EDT
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Philadelphia jury ended its fifth day of deliberations on Monday without reaching verdicts in the murder trial of a doctor accused of killing babies and a patient during late-term abortions at a clinic serving low-income women.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, who ran the now-shuttered Women's Medical Society Clinic, could face the death penalty if convicted by the jury in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia.
The seven-woman, five-man jury heard five weeks of testimony before starting deliberations last Tuesday. After having the weekend off, the panel deliberated about eight hours on Monday before retiring for the day. The jury was scheduled to resume deliberations on Tuesday at 8:30 a.m.
Gosnell is charged with four counts of first-degree murder for delivering live babies during late-term abortions and then deliberately severing their spinal cords, prosecutors said.
It is legal in Pennsylvania to abort a fetus up to 24 weeks into a pregnancy. Gosnell also faces charges that he performed 24 abortions beyond 24 weeks.
By Dave Warner
PHILADELPHIA | Mon May 6, 2013 4:32pm EDT
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Philadelphia jury ended its fifth day of deliberations on Monday without reaching verdicts in the murder trial of a doctor accused of killing babies and a patient during late-term abortions at a clinic serving low-income women.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, who ran the now-shuttered Women's Medical Society Clinic, could face the death penalty if convicted by the jury in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia.
The seven-woman, five-man jury heard five weeks of testimony before starting deliberations last Tuesday. After having the weekend off, the panel deliberated about eight hours on Monday before retiring for the day. The jury was scheduled to resume deliberations on Tuesday at 8:30 a.m.
Gosnell is charged with four counts of first-degree murder for delivering live babies during late-term abortions and then deliberately severing their spinal cords, prosecutors said.
It is legal in Pennsylvania to abort a fetus up to 24 weeks into a pregnancy. Gosnell also faces charges that he performed 24 abortions beyond 24 weeks.
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