A male palliative care nurse who injected patients with deadly overdoses has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in Aachen, Germany.
The 44 year old, whose name has not been publicly released, was convicted of 10 murders and 27 attempted murders, all committed from December 2023 to May 2024. The incidents took place while he worked the night shift at a palliative care centre in Wuerselen, a town near Aachen.
His motive for playing “master of life and death,” prosecutors alleged, was to reduce his nightly workload. The court heard that he had frequently shown a lack of empathy towards patients who needed extra care and had often expressed his irritation with them …
