Germany: Nurse Guilty of Killing 28 Patients (New York Time


Stephan Letter, left, a nurse described as Germany?s worst serial killer since World War II, was convicted of killing 28 patients at a hospital in southern Sonthofen in 2003 and 2004 and was sentenced to life in prison. Mr. Letter, 28, killed his victims by injecting them with a mixture of drugs. He was motivated, his lawyer argued, by compassion for seriously ill patients. The patients were aged