A palliative care nurse at a hospital in Germany has been handed a life sentence, convicted for the murder of 10 patients and the attempted murder of 27 more.

Prosecutors had alleged that between December 2023 and May 2024, the man, who has not been named publicly, injected mostly older patients at a hospital in Wuerselen, in western Germany, with lethal doses of painkillers or sedatives, including morphine and midazolam, to ease his workload during busy night shifts.

Midazolam is a muscle relaxant and is occasionally used in executions in the U.S., according to CBS .

Prosecutors accused the man, who was arrested in 2024, of playing “master of life and death” over patients in his care, said the man had a personality disorder, lacked compassion for patients and never expressed remors

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