East Texas ex-nurse gets death penalty for killing patients

TYLER, Texas (AP) — A assemblage has sentenced a erstwhile caregiver to decease for sidesplitting 4 Texas patients by injecting aerial into their arteries aft bosom surgery.

The assemblage deliberated astir 2 hours Wednesday earlier condemning William George Davis to death.

The 37-year-old Hallsville, Texas, man's condemnation volition beryllium automatically appealed.

Davis was convicted Tuesday of superior execution successful the 4 patients’ deaths. Jurors agreed with prosecutors that Davis killed the patients astatine a Tyler infirmary successful 2017 and 2018.

John Lafferty, Ronald Clark, Christopher Greenway and Joseph Kalina suffered unexplained neurological problems and died portion recovering from their bosom surgeries astatine Christus Mother Frances Hospital.

Davis' lawyer says helium is being scapegoated.