Former Texas nurse convicted of killing 4 patients found guilty
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An ex-nurse faces the death penaltye after a jury found him guilty on Tuesday serial murders of four heart patients with injections air at an East Texas hospital.
William George Davis, 37, of Hallsville, Texas, was found guilty of homiccapital language after a state court jury in Tyler, Texas, deliberated for about an hour, reported Tyler Morning Telegraph and KSLA-TV.
Capital murder is the most serious crime in the state of Texas. It is the only crime in the state that is punishable by death.
Prosecutors said the former nurse William davis killed four men in 2017 and 2018 by injecting air into their arterial systems while recovering from heart procedures at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital in Tyler.
The victims were identified as John Lafferty, Ronald Clark, Christopher Greenaway and Joseph Kalina.
Prosecutors seek the death penalty for Davis, who pleaded not guilty at the beginning of his 11-day trial and refused to take the stand in his own defense.
Smith County Assistant District Attorney, Chris Gatewood, said the reason for Davis it was the sheer pleasure of murder.
“There is a reason here to Will Davis. It’s simple, ”he said in his closing arguments. “He likes to kill people. He liked to go into the rooms and inject air into them. If you watch the video of Kalina, [uno de los pacientes que murieron] He sat down at the end of the hall and looked at those monitors and waited. That’s because he liked that. “
Your defense attorney, Phillip Hayes, argued that the patients showed signs of strokes and that their deaths could be attributed to health complications.
Argued that Davis he had attempted to administer first aid to at least two of the patients, but also acknowledged that he lied to hospital administrators as they investigated the sudden deaths of the patients.
The case will now go to the phase in which the sanction will be decided, where the jury will hear more testimony before making a decision on whether to sentence Davis to life imprisonment or death penalty.
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