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A palliative care nurse in Germany has been sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted of the murder of 10 patients and the attempted murder of 27 others.
Prosecutors alleged 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.
It could be a warped sense of excess compassion, too. Some of these caregiver serial killers are “angel of death” types who think they’re doing euthenasia.
(Not saying that’s the case here, since OP’s blurb gives a different motive and I can’t be bothered to read further, but more broadly it seems to be a well-known thing.)