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Texas nurse convicted of killing 4 men with air injections

  A Texas nurse was convicted of capital murder in the   deaths of four patients   at an East Texas hospital in 2017. Prosecutors will seek ...

 A Texas nurse was convicted of capital murder in the deaths of four patients at an East Texas hospital in 2017.

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against William Davis, 37, during the sentencing phase, set to being on Wednesday.

Davis was accused by prosecutors of killing four men who had been recovering from heart surgery at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler by injecting air into their arteries.

The four patients were John Lafferty, Ronald Clark, Christopher Greenway and Joseph Kalina. They all died when Davis was the only nurse on duty.

Following their surgery, prosecutors said all four patients were in stable condition. But they then suffered stroke-like symptoms, and CT scans showed the men had abnormal arterial spaces in their brains.

Davis’ defense attorney, Phillip Hayes, has said his client was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Davis (left) listens to the jury's verdict during his trial on Oct. 19, 2021.
Davis (left) listens to the jury’s verdict during his trial on Oct. 19, 2021.
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Davis will either serve life in prison or receive the death penalty.
Davis will either serve life in prison or receive the death penalty.

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