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For three years from 2020 to 2023, in long-term health facilities across western Pennsylvania, 41-year-old registered nurse Heather Pressdee administered excessive amounts of insulin to 22 of her patients trying to kill them. Of the 22 patients that Heather tried to murder she was successful in killing 17. She would later claim she was performing mercy killings to end her patients’ suffering. To avoid the death penalty, Heather plead guilty to three counts of first-degree murder as well as 19 counts of criminal attempt to commit murder. So, did Heather Pressdee commit mercy killings or murder because she liked the power and dominance in it?
References:
Former Pennsylvania Nurse Gets Life Sentence in Insulin Deaths - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Western Pa. Nurse Charged with Killing 2 Patients, Harming Another with Intentional Doses of Insulin – PA Office of Attorney General

Pennsylvania nurse connected to 17 patient deaths gets life in prison (usatoday.com)

Pennsylvania nurse pleads guilty to killing patients with lethal doses of insulin (nbcnews.com)

Nurse charged in the deaths of 17 patients berated and bullied diabetic man before giving lethal insulin dose, suit says (nbcnews.com)

Nurse Kills Two Patients with Insulin, Says They’re ‘Better off dead’: Criminal Complaint – Crime Online

Pennsylvania nurse sentenced to life in prison after admitting she intentionally gave patients excessive insulin doses, prosecutors say | CNN

Heather Pressdee: Nurse gets life over deaths of 17 patients, victim's family calls her 'pure evil' (msn.com)

Is this nurse one of America’s most prolific serial killers? (thetimes.co.uk)

Chalon C. Young: Why did Heather Pressdee kill her patients? (msn.com)

'Pure evil': Pennsylvania nurse connected to 17 patient deaths sentenced to hundreds o

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