Grand Jury Does Not Indict Doctor

A grand jury refused 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. She and two nurses were arrested last summer after the Attorney General concluded they gave lethal cocktails to four patients at the flooded-out, sweltering Memorial Medical Center after the storm.