A palliative doctor in Germany is on trial for murdering 15 patients using a cocktail of sedatives. Prosecutors allege he acted with premeditated malice, seeking a life sentence and a lifetime ban on practicing medicine. The accused, identified as Johannes M., worked in a mobile nursing service and is believed to have provided fatal doses to patients who were gravely ill but not at immediate risk of death. Investigations into additional suspected killings are ongoing, prompted by the suspicious deaths of several patients in fires.
Prosecutors have charged the 40-year-old defendant with 15 counts of murder with premeditated malice and other base motives, seeking a life sentence for the crimes.
The doctor is accused of arranging house calls to kill patients using a deadly cocktail of sedatives, acting with disregard for life and behaving as the master of life and death.
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