A palliative care nurse in Germany has been sentenced to life in prison for killing 10 patients and attempting murder of 27 others in an effort to ease his workload.

BBC quoted prosecutors as claiming that the man, who has not been publicly named, injected his mostly elderly patients with painkillers or sedatives in an effort to ease his workload during shifts overnight between December 2023 and May 2024 in a hospital in Wuerselen, in western Germany.

The accused, who had been employed at the hospital since 2020, had shown “irritation" and a lack of empathy to patients who required a higher level of care, the prosecutors said while accusing him of playing “master of life and death".

They further said that the accused injected patients with large doses of morphine and midazolam, a type o

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