US woman sentenced to one year in prison for shooting terminally ill husband

Ellen Gilland was arrested in January of 2023 after killing her 77-year-old husband, Jerry Gilland, in his hospital room in Florida

A woman in Florida has gotten a one-year prison sentence for shooting her terminally ill husband to death at a hospital in early 2023.

Ellen Gilland's attorney had argued for probation, essentially characterizing the case as a mercy killing. But the presiding judge sentenced Gilland to prison because of the trauma and distress she inflicted on nursing staff, other patients, and law enforcement who responded to the killing.