Husband gets slap on the wrist for assisted suicide

Citing “complexities and the odd nature of the case,” a Terrebonne Parish judge this morning ordered a Houma, LA, man to spend six months in jail for helping his ailing wife commit suicide. John Ahlf II got a five-year suspended prison term. He must also serve three years of probation, a year in home incarceration and take a mental-health evaluation and decision-making course. Ahlf pleaded guilty in May to the assisted-suicide charge, brought after he placed 130 pills and alcohol within reach of his wife, Mary Ahlf, who suffered from debilitating arthritis in her back, according to testimony. He said she threatened to kill herself many times, whether or not he wished to be present. Houma Today