Not the slightest suggestion any of it was ever about mercy killing.
German Nurse Convicted of Killing 85 Patients
OLDENBURG, Germany — The former nurse’s crimes were “incomprehensible,” a German judge told the court on Thursday, reaching his arms across the breadth of the bench as if to capture in one gesture what he sensed his words had failed to define — the enormity of murdering 85 patients who had been placed in the care of the nurse but instead had found death.
“Your guilt is so large that one can’t explain it,” the presiding judge, Sebastian Bührmann, told the nurse, Niels Höge, in a courtroom packed with the relatives of the 100 patients whose deaths he was charged with orchestrating.
“It is so large, you can’t show it.”
Mr. Högel is believed to be the most prolific serial killer in peacetime Germany, and perhaps the world.
I can remember when complacent and oh-so-serious foreign news commenters used to publicly assure us all that serial and mass murderers were an entirely American phenomenon.
Oh, America the horrible!
Later on, the story indicates the max sentence available to the judge is life without eligibility for parole during the first fifteen years.
Not death.
Not life without eligibility for parole, ever.
What happens to a man like this in a system with neither capital punishment nor the draconian sentences of America the violent and horrible?
Nowhere near enough.
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