BERLIN — A German court sentenced a male nurse to life in prison Thursday for killing patients with overdoses of heart medication, which he confessed to administering because he enjoyed trying to revive the patients.
The Oldenburg regional court found the 38-year-old guilty of charges including two counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder and another of serious bodily harm, court spokesman Daniel Moennich said. Prosecutors had accused the man, identified only as Niels H. in line with German privacy rules, of three murders and two attempted murders during his time working at a clinic in the town of Delmenhorst.
The defendant said during the trial that he intentionally induced cardiac crises in some 90 patients because he enjoyed the feeling of being able to resuscitate them. He said 30 patients died, and expressed remorse for his actions.