Blows me away !! and she gets life ? not fair...inject her with bleach as well, or put her down like you would a sick animal, cause that's what she is !

Lucky it wasn't one of my family member....she wouldn't never to trial !

totally agree.

Just look at her face in that pic. She looks like she's about to laugh.Makes you want to shoot HER up with some bleach.

This is a very horrible report. It really tells of nothing and someone considers their own self to be edjucated in reporting? This is what's wrong with college. Who died? Who reported what? It's beeen sinc 2008 and you have no details? Really, patients just watched as he drew and injected bleach? I imagine someone reported it. Who edited this article? That person should be fired also. Texas has the greatest execution rate and no one writes about how this person received only a life sentence? This is crap reporting.

Well: the employer is an angel...check them out. Keeping dead people alive indefinitely for billable invoicing due to human denial...check that out....and she does look nuts. Or just Kevorkian-like...hmmmm.

So who's wrong; the employer, the employee, or the patient? You decide.

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serpico,

Texas executes the highest number of inmates, but Virginia completes the highest percentage of sentences---nearly 75%. This jury was very generous. The woman is a serial killing psychopath. I visited Lufkin several times in my youth and loved it then.

As I am a dialysys patient I think that this woman should be put to death by lethal injection of bleach.

remove her kidneys for transplant...and let her sweat it out...

She is not insane. She is evil and cruel. No jail time is enough. I say put her in a septic tank - knee deep in it, put the lid on and leave her or put her in a coffin and bury her alive in an unmarked grave.

I am disappointed in the Texans on the jury. Life in prison is a vaction for this demonic fat ass.

as a dialysis patient, (@ davita in fort worth), and relatively young (50), i PROMISE you even with needles in my arm i would get up and LITERALLY KICK HER FAT ASS if she came near me with a syringe.....it baffles me that patients, other dialysis techs, and the charge nurse on duty did'nt go to the police if they witnessed this........

For all the people Texas kills, and I'm not a big fan of it, what makes this nut worth hanging onto instead of just hanging?

I don't think you are of any use to this society either, Ray. So go inject it to yourself please. This would make the world better.

She even has Kathy Bates' "Misery" hair style.

Good call on that one! I was going to say the same thing. lol!! I hear she's playing Annie Wilkes in Misery on Broadway this Summer.

jmf8800....."Well: the employer is an angel...check them out. Keeping dead people alive indefinitely for billable invoicing due to human denial...check that out....and she does look nuts. Or just Kevorkian-like...hmmmm. So who's wrong; the employer, the employee, or the patient? You decide."

I certainly hope the last two comments were /sarcasm/.

This lady was found "GUILTY of capital murder" by a jury !!! No reason for anyone else to make a decision of her guilt.

I hope she has a very, very, very slow death in prison.

Serpico...first off it was a she and not a he that injected the bleach! Secondly, it is spelled educated and not edjucated. I get the gist of what you are saying but I think you should go back to school. Your grammar and spelling show us your ignorance.

Vic2494724...if only I could vote for your comment 1,000 times I would. Some people just don't deserve to take space up on this planet. Unfortunately, they do! Ray el Viejo should be sent to a deserted island and left there to rot!

Ray el Viejo I would really like for you to experience some of the sh-t that us dialysis patients have to go through just to live. And I am only 37 years old. I believe it is weak people like you that need to be removed. I am sure having a tunnel catheter ripped into your neck would make you a little b--ch.

Plain Bob has it right. Let her donate her kidneys and go on dialysis. Then, oops, was that bleach?

jak-3696747

This is why we need public hangings in this country and televise it live.

Or just sell season tickets and bring the kids (joking about the kids part) America needs to stop letting people off with a slap on the wrist or letting them go. Bring back the gas chamber as well as public hangings. I'll go every year.

mjm612

I go for dialsys 3 times aweek and I would do the same thing. We place our lives in their hands every time we go in for treatment. This really pisses me off. Now it makes me wonder ever time someone injects my line. This is unbelievable.

ray el viejo

You are so ignorant. Some people on dialisys are in bad shape.Some still work and maintain as normal lives as possible. NO ONE DESERVES TO DIE AND SUFFER DOING SO. You need to keep your thoughts to your self and crawl back under that rock you came from. You needed to be collasped.

Agree on the execution parts. Maybe if people saw consequences for heinous actions, they'd think twice.

This article has raised more questions than it answers but must say it is disappointing that she was not awarded the death penalty. My husband is also a hemodialysis patient and for a while we were doing his treatments ourselves at home so this really strikes a chord with us. Hard to believe that someone could do this to five helpless patients. Believe me when I tell you that the patients are practically helpless once they're hooked up to the machine. Sickening that any person, let alone a nurse, could do this.

For all those reminded of Dragon Lady Annie Wilkes, have to agree.

She claims that there were problems with procedures. Bleach is actually used to keep dialysis machinery sterile. Obviously, it isn't injected straight into dialysis lines--but she claims that there were issues with procedures and that she is being scapegoated.

Fortunately, there is no campaign being mounted which required Texas to prove beyond any doubt that this woman's story was not true. They only had to show that it didn't make sense, and that so many deaths so close together (apparently, they took place in about a month or so) indicated that this was done purposefully.

See what a difference it makes when someone like Zimmerman has to be shown to be be almost certainly guilty before he is even arrested, versus someone who could be fired simply because a patient said s/he had seen the nurse injecting bleach in the lines? I'd hate for the laws regarding something like this to be changed--if one had to provide a preponderance of evidence that this woman was not trained poorly, as she claims, she might still be free.

and the categories are purex or clorox...and we be right back with final jeapordy...but first we got to drain a vain...

Poor training? REALLY? I have never been to nursing school but even I know you don't inject bleach in to an IV. Wish she was in Texas then she would get what's coming to her.

She was in TX. A Texas jury gave her life!

jf8800 and ray el veja i can only hope f she ever gets out we can get her to be a nurse for each of you

apparently, it was discovered she is a good republican and just trying to save the money spent on sick democrats who maybe had no health insurance.

PRober......

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW! Your name just says it all.... probably getting "free" health insurance for all the irresponsible "probing" in HIV infested back doors, which would explain why it does not bother you that taxpayers have to have their money spent on people that are too irresponsible to maintain their own health to prevent such expensive and invasive treatment. It would be kinda nice if it there was a way to shut up idiot Democrats such as yourself as fast as this (without killing or hurting of course). Really dude? that was a douchebag comment. Boo on you.

Note to dialysis patients: I know that not all of you are at fault for your condition and that kidney failure is not always preventable- please don't take this message the wrong way if you fall into that category. I know that you go through hell and my heart goes out to you.

He's got to say something in her defense, otherwise she could claim mistrial and they would have to do the whole thing over again.

Poor training? Since when is injecting bleach part of training? Sentence the defense too. Or did he make that comment because he was "poorly trained" too.

I attended this trial and that was not the argument. The defense was that Davita was ran poorly and they conspired to blame Ms. Saenz as a scapegoat for their shoddy service. There was a lot of evidence presented that UFR (ultra filtration rates) were too high and Davita treated their patients like cattle running 3 shifts per day.

As a healthcare professional, I have to say that this is NOT poor training. Any reasonable sane person, trained or not would know not to inject bleach into an IV line. The fact that other patients witnessed this so that it obviously was not hidden makes it even stranger. I agree with posters that state she needs to be subjected to the same treatment. I cannot fathom how anyone, much less someone trained to give care could do this to another person. We're trained that the patient well being is in our trust and that must be guarded. This person is a sick puppy and how she was allowed to treat patients if her husband was threatened should be investigated

The public defender had to say something, no matter how unlikely or wacked out, in her defense. Otherwise, as others here correctly note, this monster would have valid grounds for a mistrial.

Nice to hear from someone who was there. Thanks.

"Poorly trained" ..... She must have missed the class where they explain what that big skull and crossbones on the bottle means.

If poor training were to blame, she wouldn't be the only employee who had trouble keeping people alive. (I just can't bring myself to call her "nurse" or her victims "patients".)

And your point is what? That she should be forgiven because she knows not what she does is wrong? Yeah right. If this happened in TX she'll likely get the death penalty...and quickly.

Wake up Jason MO! It did happen in TEXAS (Lufkin, TX.) and she got life in prison. You should read before you post otherwise your only a TROLL! Got it?

Did you read the article? It DID happen in Texas and the jury COULD have recommended the death penalty but did not.

No--the point is that 2-4% of people are psychopaths/sociopaths who do not see anything wrong with doing stuff like this. So, one might, for example, want to screen nurses just a tad better to make sure that they do not seem to be psychopaths/sociopaths.

Psychopaths and sociopaths do not necessarily rate as "insane." If they understand what they are doing and the ramifications of it, they are not "insane." There are better laws in Europe, where people are "guilty but insane." They spend their time in institutions until they are ruled competent, and then they go to jail.

This woman is spending life in prison--she isn't getting the death penalty. That's already been decided. You might want to work a bit on those reading comprehension skills, Jason.

Apparently, Texas no longer reigns as the 'capital punishment capitol of the union' huh? Had she killed patients whose lives really didn't rise to her 'level'...or is she too highly regarded to face capital punishment? What a bunch of hypocrites!

hang her by her finger nails of a tree....let the birds do the rest...she is a waste of human flesh !

Here's hoping someone severely takes care of 'Annie Wilks' in prison! Loser!

Don't throw the word 'troll' around, you look childish.

Contrary to popular belief, we do not execute all that should be. Every time we do, we have everybody on the planet griping about how neanderthal we are. Now, of course, you are pissed because we gave her life in prison instead. No pleasing some folks.

Did I read this right? Her Attorney said " She was poorly Trained. "

If I was the one of the victims family, I would throw his SORRY AZZ in with her for coming up with that kind of Bull $H!T answer.

The difference between a Leach and an Attorney.......

The Leach will fall off, after you DIE!!!

As a hemo dialysis patient I am glad she got a life sentence. For 3-4 hours 3x a week we are helpless and at the mercy of our dialysis nurses and techs. Justice would have been her life for the lives she has taken. Dialysis is hard enough without worrying about your nurse trying to kill you.

I take offense w/ some of these posts. Some say she looks "Kevorkian- like". Kevorkian did what he did because he thought a patient should have the RIGHT to die in the way they chose. People ASKED him to put them out of their misery! To those that frown on his way, seriously, Hospice is much, much worse. They simply drug you with sedatives until your respiratory system shuts down and who knows what takes place in the mind of the one being drugged by them??? Hospice was a HORROR when my mom passed. They are to have nothing to do w/ me if I ever end up dying. Also, someone said she should be put down like a sick animal. A sick animal should get TREATMENT and only be put down is there is no AVAILABLE treatment not because they have become a bit of trouble or expense as they are not TOYS! She should have been sentenced to death period and Kevorkian is a decent man in my eyes- better than those that treat their pets as disposable things.

She needs to have her sentence commuted to death.period Where is governer Perry?

Joe-3710468:

And your proof for NO God is what exactly? ALL the universe evolved from what exactly? Gas? Dust? gravity? And where did this "begining material" come from Joe? Your no smarter than MLJ, see?

The burden of proof lies with the person who contends there is a god, not with the person who correctly states there is no proof. Basic logic, kiddies. Like, I can prove their is air, the world is basically a sphere, the earth rotates around the sun, the sun is one of billions of stars in the galaxy, there are billions of observable galaxies in the universe, the universe is 13.7 billion years old, etc. But there is no none nada proof that there is a god. Not even a mustard seed of proof. Hear me? Zero.

scrambolo - Seems you're saying there has to be a beginning for everything, so that must be God. Then, where, and how, did God begin?

Actually Steved-295539 check out noetic science you might be surprised (they argue for, against, and other possible theories of God and/or a supernatural existence), but back to the story, my deepest sympathy towards the victims and the families, may they someday find peace in this terrible tragedy.

steved-295539 Really? You can prove the universe is 13 billion years old? You would be the first, because no one has yet. Google trouble in the cosmos, where scientists' estimates of the universe's age, has it as younger than the stars. how is that possible? We can all agree that air exists, etc...the question is how did all of it come to be? NO ONE has answered this with PROOF. Burden of proof? God doesn't have to prove anything. Christianity is based on FAITH, without which it is impossible to please God...proof would eliminate faith.

I will bring and present my burden of proof in a court of law; elsewhere, it's nonsense.

Oh come on... You didn't see where Steve won the noble prize for his work in both theology as well as the sciences? He and Ginny are currently working with Joe on solving the who came first, chicken or egg question. Joe will never believe the findings though because there is no proof...

"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God..." (Psalm 14:1).

Ginny-2323763

RE: your post #8.4

Ginny, you have an excellent point and I don't have an objective answer. I am an agnostic and all I claim is I don't know if there is a God or not. I can only say that the belief or non-belief in a God it is based on faith. I define faith as believing in something (anything) which we cannot prove with reason, scientific method, and/or DEFINITIVE fact(s). If there is a God, a personal God, as many, many people of all persuasions of religious thought claim, I will ask him/her if I have an opportunity to ask at some point in the future. If not the question will remain a mystery and a large point of discussion for mankind as it has been throughout history! Have a GREAT day!

Actually, the numbers show that an inmate on death row costs the states more money because of the increased security and the court costs from the repeated appeals. Plus, once the injection is given, their suffering ends. Whereas lifetime imprisonment is lifetime punishment. I think that life imprisonment in a capitol case means no possibility of parole?

However, I do agree that there are some who just plain should not continue breathing.

Perhaps you can take a little comfort from the fact that Virginia is taking care of Prieto for you. He has the option of choosing the electric chair, but I doubt that he will. And---they cost us less because we take care of them quicker.

I hope she gets what she deserves in prison from the other inmates.

Maybe she was so poorly trained by her parents growing up that she never learned what bleach is. Maybe she thinks it is good medicine. NOT! What a shallow defense.

You're absolutely right! Giving Annie a bad name

I'm an agnostic, steved, but I don't see the point in jumping on people every time they use the word "God", especially in such a casual manner as this. You turn your disbelief in God into an annoying and pushy religion all its own.