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Palliative Nurse Sentenced to Life for Murdering Patients to Ease Workload
6 Nov
Summary
- Nurse in Germany sentenced to life for murdering 10 patients
- Killed patients with morphine and midazolam to make overnight shifts easier
- Prosecutors say he showed "irritation" at patients who demanded too much care
In a chilling case, a palliative care nurse in Germany has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering 10 patients and attempting to kill 27 others. The crimes occurred between December 2023 and May 2024, when the nurse, whose identity is protected by law, played "God with a syringe."
Prosecutors say the nurse injected elderly patients with morphine and midazolam, not to relieve their pain but to make his rounds quieter and his night shifts easier. The court in Aachen called it a crime of "particular severity of guilt," ensuring the nurse will never walk free again.
What's truly disturbing about this case is not just the scale of the nurse's actions, but their sheer ordinariness. A man trained to heal became an executioner, driven not by malice but by indifference. Investigators are now exhuming more bodies, probing whether this was just the visible tip of a career-long pattern of murder.
