A palliative care nurse in Germany has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of killing 10 patients and attempting to kill 27 others. Prosecutors claimed that the unnamed man injected his patients, mostly elderly, with strong painkillers or sedatives to ease his workload during night shifts. These crimes were committed between December 2023 and May 2024 in a hospital in the city of Vöhringen, in western Germany. Reports indicate that investigators are looking into several other suspicious cases during his career. The unnamed man had been working at Vöhringen Hospital since 2020, after completing his training as a nurse in 2007. The court was told that he administered large doses of morphine and midazolam, a type of sedative, to patients in an attempt to lighten his workload during night shifts. He was arrested in 2024. When imposing the life sentence, the court said the man's crimes involved 'special gravity,' which prevents him from early release after 15 years. BBC reported that exhumations of bodies are underway to identify more potential victims, which could lead to the man being retried. This case is similar to that of former nurse Niels Högel, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2019 after being convicted of killing 85 patients in two hospitals in northern Germany. The court concluded that he gave lethal doses of heart medication to people under his care between 1999 and 2005 and is believed to be the most brutal killer in modern German history.