Crime & Justice
Nurse sentenced to life for killing patients by injecting them with bleach
A Texas jury on Monday sentenced a former nurse to life in prison after finding her guilty of killing five patients by injecting bleach into their kidney dialysis lines, the Lufkin Daily News reported.
A Texas jury has sentenced a former nurse to life in prison after finding her guilty of killing five patients by injecting bleach into their kidney dialysis lines, the Lufkin Daily News reported.
Texas nurse Kimberly Saenz sentenced
Kimberly Saenz, 38, was found guilty of capital murder in the case last week.
Saenz was fired from her nursing job at a clinic in Lufkin in 2008 after patients started dying and falling increasingly ill.
The Lufkin Daily News reported that at Monday’s sentencing, the daughter of victim Thelma Metcalf told Saenz, “You are nothing more than a psychopathic serial killer. I hope you burn in hell.”
During closing arguments, the prosecution reminded jurors that other patients feared for their lives after they witnessed some of the injections. Two patients testified that they saw Saenz inject the bleach into the IV lines.
Saenz’s public defender, Ryan Deaton, argued that his client had been poorly trained.