Kermit Gosnell, the American abortion doctor convicted of murder and manslaughter has died at the age of 85.
News of his death only emerged on March 23. Gosnell had been found guilty in 2013 of the first-degree murder of three infants who were born alive, as well as the involuntary manslaughter of Karnamaya Mongar, a 41-year-old refugee who died after being given a lethal overdose of anaesthesia at his clinic.
He was also convicted on numerous additional counts relating to illegal late-term abortions and violations of medical law. Prosecutors established during the trial that Gosnell routinely induced labour in women in the later stages of pregnancy and then killed babies born alive by severing their spinal cords.
