Lufkin- A former Texas nurse convicted of killing five dialysis patients by injecting them with bleach should spend the rest of her life in prison with no chance of parole, jurors who earlier convicted the woman of capital murder said on Monday.

Kimberly Saenz was convicted on Friday of killing the patients at a clinic run by Denver-based health care giant DaVita Inc. She also received three 20-year terms for aggravated assault in the cases of five other patients who were deliberately injured.

Saenz, a mother of two, was fired in April 2008 after a rash of illnesses and deaths at the clinic in Lufkin, in East Texas about 125 miles north-east of Houston. Her lawyers argued Saenz wrongly took the blame for the clinic’s sloppy procedures.

“She’s never getting out no matter what you do,” Saenz’s lawyer, Steve Taylor, said in his closing remarks, urging jurors to choose a life sentence. – Sapa-AP

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