Woman pleads guilty to assisted suicide of two sons

GRIFFIN - A woman who admitted to fatally shooting her two sons suffering from Huntington&#39;s disease avoided murder charges Wednesday by pleading guilty to breaking Georgia&#39;s little-used assisted suicide law. <br> <br> Spalding County Superior Court Judge Ben Miller said that under the agreement, Carol Carr will serve five years in prison followed by five years of probation. <br> <br> She also will not be the primary caretaker of her surviving son, 38-year-old James Scott, who also has the nerve disease. <br> <br> Carr had faced two counts of felony murder and two counts of malice murder for shooting 42-year-old Michael Randy Scott and 41-year-old Andy Byron Scott, on June eighth, in a Griffin nursing home. Both men were unable to communicate and bedridden in the advanced stages of the nerve disease, which also killed their father. <br> <br> After the hearing, Scott said, ``It&#39;s a big burden off my shoulders.&#39;&#39;