Grand Jury clears doctor of Katrina mercy killings

When you have a D.A. who feels a grand jury that lets off a murderer did the right thing, you have some serious problems. Dr. Pou and two nurses admitted to injecting four hospital patients with a lethal level of pain killers in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Either the doctor intentionally killed the four patients - and should be imprisoned for the rest of her life - or committed one of the most egregiously gross acts of medical malpractice I've heard of, and should still be imprisoned for manslaughter and barred from practicing medicine.

When in our society did it become acceptable for people to murder the innocent?

Grand jury clears doctor of Katrina mercy killings
Chicago Sun-Times

NEW ORLEANS - A grand jury refused on Tuesday to indict a doctor accused of murdering four seriously ill hospital patients with drug injections during the desperate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, closing the books on the only mercy-killing case to emerge from the storm.

Dr. Anna Pou acknowledged administering medication to the patients but insisted she did so only to relieve pain.

Pou (pronounced ''Poe'') and two nurses were arrested last summer after Attorney General Charles Foti concluded they gave ''lethal cocktails'' to four patients at the flooded-out, sweltering Memorial Medical Center after the August 2005 storm.