Ellen Gilland Sentenced | Mercy Killing of Ill Husband • SENTENCES

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. —
The Volusia County woman accused of shooting and killing her terminally ill husband in a Daytona Beach hospital in 2023 was sentenced Friday after pleading no contest in December.

Ellen Gilland will serve about a year in prison followed by 12 years of probation.
Gilland was facing anywhere between probation up to 10 years in prison.

Daytona Beach police say Gilland made a murder-suicide pact with her 77-year-old husband about three weeks before the shooting at AdventHealth Daytona Beach. The man, Jerry Gilland, was terminally ill and reportedly agreed to the pact with his wife if his health continued to take a turn for the worse.Police say the woman brought a gun into the hospital and fatally shot her husband before barricading herself in their 11th-floor room for hours.

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