Lacking empathy: William Davis showed no emotion and no remorse
during the trial and at sentencing , except to weep for himself

 

Texas former ICU nuse William Davis gets death penalty for killing 4 patients just for fun and money

The white serial killer, prosecutors said, murdered four patients ‘for fun’ by injecting them with air

By Edward Era Barbacena

A jury sentenced a former Texas white nurse to death Wednesday for killing four patients by injecting air into their arteries after heart surgery.

He worked in the cardiovascular ICU wing at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, Texas when he killed four patients between 2017 and 2018

Deprave serial killer Texas nurse William George
Davis, 37, [photo], has been sentenced to death
for killing four patients after he injected them with air
for fun following their heart surgeries at a Dallas
 area hospital a one year span

The Smith County jury deliberated about two hours before condemning William George Davis to death. The 37-year-old Hallsville man’s sentence will be automatically appealed.

Jurors agreed with prosecutors that Davis killed four patients at a Tyler hospital in 2017 and 2018. John Lafferty, Ronald Clark, Christopher Greenway and Joseph Kalina suffered unexplained neurological problems and died while recovering from their heart surgeries at Christus Mother Frances Hospital.

Davis injected air into their arteries and CT scans showed stroke-like symptoms and fatal brain damage

During the trial's sentencing phase, prosecutors played for the jury recordings of telephone calls Davis made from jail shortly after the Oct. 19 guilty verdict. In a call to his ex-wife, Davis — a nurse in the hospital's cardiac intensive care unit — said he would find ways to prolong patients' ICU stays so he could work more overtime and make more money.

Prosecution experts testified that all four victims showed signs of air in their brains that caused irreversible damage. After the fourth death, security video showed Davis was the last person to see the victim before the man's condition deteriorated.

The sentence was announced by 114th District Court Judge Austin Reeve Jackson a week after Davis was convicted of the capital murders of Christopher Greenaway, 47; Jose Kalina, 58; Ronald Clark, 68; and John Lafferty, 74.