Man Says He Killed His Wife To End Her Cancer Pain

Man Says He Killed His Wife To End Her Cancer Pain

If your Cancer-stricken spouse asked you to kill them to end their misery…..could you do the job? One Kentucky man is pleading not guilty after fatally shooting his wife who was ‘in pain’ from breast Cancer because he says she asked him to do it.

via Fox News

A southeastern Kentucky man charged with killing his wife says he fatally shot her because she asked him to end her suffering from breast cancer.

“She told me she wanted me to end her pain. All I said [was] ‘Jay, all I’ve got is what the doctor gave you.’ She said ‘No, I want you to stop my pain for good,'” Ernest Chris Chumbley told FoxLexington.com from his cell in the Laurel County Detention Center

In a 911 tape, a dispatcher asks Chumbley, “What happened again?”, to which Chumbley responds “You need to come out here.”

Deputies found Virginia Chumbley dead in the couple’s bedroom with two gunshot wounds.

The 48-year-old Chumbley was arrested on a murder charge and was being held on $200,000 bond. He pleaded not guilty to the charges in Laurel District Court.

“I shot her,” Chumbley said. “She died from my shots, but it’s not murder.”

Neighbors told FoxLexington.com that the couple had been happily married for more than 20 years, but Virginia Chumbley’s breast cancer had ravaged her health.

“She was hurting real bad. We could hear her at night like she was gasping for air,” said Stanley Campbell, the Chumbley’s next-door neighbor.

I just did what she asked,”Chumbely said from his cell. “And I would expect no different from her if I was asking her.”

Unfortunately, there’s no way for anyone to know for sure if this woman actually asked her husband to kill her, but if she did…..do you think he should still be held accountable for her murder?

Photo Credit: London, KY Sheriff’s Office