Follow-up: Former East Texas nurse sentenced to death for killing 4 patients at Tyler hospital

[TexasTowelie]

TYLER — Jurors on Wednesday gave the death penalty to a former East Texas nurse for killing four patients at a Tyler hospital.

The Smith County jury found William George Davis, 37, of Hallsville has a probability of being a danger to society and found there are not sufficient mitigating factors that would hinder him from receiving the death penalty.

After hearing input from the jury, 114th District Court Judge Austin Reeve Jackson issued the official sentencing. The jury deliberated for just less than two hours after hearing the last evidence from the defense and the closing arguments.

Davis was found guilty Oct. 19 of injecting air into patients’ arterial systems while he was a nurse at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital in Tyler, causing the deaths of patients John Lafferty, Ronald Clark, Christopher Greenaway and Joseph Kalina.

Read more: https://www.news-journal.com/news/public_safety/former-east-texas-nurse-sentenced-to-death-for-killing-4-patients-at-tyler-hospital/article_d93f53db-e0c5-5e07-aafd-30595ea7e019.html
(Longview News-Journal)

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Tyler nurse convicted of killing four men with air injections
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