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Article: Former nurse receives life sentence for deaths at Indiana hospital Majors gets maximum penalty for giving patients lethal injections in mid-'90s
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 16, 1999
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A former nurse was sentenced Monday to spend the rest of his life
in prison for murdering six of his elderly patients, a crime the
judge called "a paragon of evil at its most wicked."
Orville Lynn Majors was sentenced to six consecutive 60-year terms
for giving lethal injections of heart-stopping drugs to six patients
being treated at Vermillion County Hospital in the mid-1990s.
In a courtroom packed with relatives of the victims, Judge Ernest
Yelton stared at Majors as he imposed the maximum penalty.
"He was entrusted with these people's care. In response, he
committed diabolical acts that extinguished the frail lives of six
people," Yelton said.
Relatives of Majors' victims ...