"I held the gun behind his ear. I pulled it away and asked him if he was sure. He raised his hand. And placed it on my arm and pushed the gun to his head. There was a loud bang and he was gone."

A 76-year-old woman shot and killed her terminally ill husband of more than five decades as he lay in a hospital bed, Florida authorities said. A judge sentenced Ellen Gilland, now 78, to one year in prison after she pleaded no contest to charges of manslaughter with a firearm and three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.