Click photo to enlarge George Sanders, center, is joined by his
attorney Janey Henze Cook, right, outside a Phoenix courtroom,
Friday, March 29, 2013. The 86-year-old, who carried out a mercy
killing by shooting his ailing wife and high school sweetheart
in the head, was sentenced Friday to probation after an
emotional hearing where family members tearfully spoke on his
behalf. PHOENIX—There was no doubt 86-year-old George Sanders
killed his ailing wife. Yet everyone in the small Arizona
courtroom—the prosecutor, the judge and even the couple's family
members—agreed it was a time for compassion, not punishment.
"My grandfather lived to love my grandmother, to serve and to
make her feel as happy as he could every moment of their life,"
Sanders' grandson, Grant, told the judge, describing the
couple's life together as "a beautiful love story."  "I truly
believe that the pain had become too much for my grandmother to
bear," he said, while Sanders looked on during the sentencing
hearing Friday and occasionally w