Texas nurse sentenced to death for injecting air into 4 patients. William George Davis, 37, was sentenced to death Wednesday for injecting air into the arteries of male patients after their open-heart surgeries, the Associated Press reports.
Texas nurse sentenced to death after killing 4 patients by injecting them with air
After about two hours of deliberation, the Smith County jury handed down the higher sentence for the former cardiac intensive care unit nurse.
According to The Tyler Morning Telegraph, Davis received his sentence after the jury decided he “is likely to be a danger to society and found that there are not enough mitigating factors to prevent him from receiving the death penalty.”
Davis previously worked at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, Texas, before being fired in 2018.
According to his arrest affidavit, he was captured on hospital surveillance footage entering the rooms of patients who had recovered from heart surgeries, PEOPLE previously reported.
Moments after visiting their rooms, the patients’ conditions deteriorated.
Between 2017 and 2018, Davis killed John Lafferty, Ronald Clark, Christopher Greenaway and Joseph Kalina, all of whom had air injected into their arterial lines, resulting in brain damage, PEOPLE reported.
He likes to kill people,” said prosecutor Chris Gatewood, according to KLTV. “He liked to go into rooms and inject air into them.”
