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Man who shot terminally ill wife cannot claim he had her consent, appeals court rules
The Jefferson County jury that convicted a man of first-degree murder for shooting his terminally ill wife did not need to consider whether he had the victim’s consent to kill her, the state’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday. In a case involving an alleged “mercy killing,” Bruce E. Bagwell shot his wife of 36 years, Theresa…


