COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An attorney for a Roman Catholic
priest convicted of killing a nun in 1980 says the man has a terminal
illness and was moved to an Ohio hospital.
Toledo attorney Richard
Kerger said Tuesday that the Rev. Gerald Robinson was flown Saturday to
a Columbus hospital to be evaluated for heart problems. The 76-year-old
Robinson was then moved to a prison hospital after doctors told the
family he was terminal.
Kerger says he was told Robinson was moved
to hospice care. A state prisons spokesman wouldn’t comment on
Robinson’s condition but confirmed the prison hospital in Columbus has a
hospice unit.
Robinson was serving a life sentence at the Southeastern Correctional Institution near Lancaster.
He was convicted in 2006 of killing Sister Margaret Ann Pahl during Easter weekend in 1980.