British police arrested former BBC journalist Ray Gosling on suspicion of murder Wednesday after he confessed, on the air, to killing a terminally ill lover years ago. Gosling, 70, said the man was dying from AIDS and in "terrible, terrible pain," so he smothered him with a pillow to end his suffering. Does Gosling deserve sympathy -- or prison time? (Watch Ray Gosling's television confession)
Ray Gosling is no murderer: Let's hope the police who question Ray Gosling look beyond the raw facts, says Paul Taylor in Britain's Manchester Evening News. Gosling, who has yet to be formally charged with a crime, says his lover made him promise to step in when the pain was unbearable. "Some things are beyond the law," and sometimes "an act of murder can really be an act of love."
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