Malvre Christine

French nurse who was arrested in 1998 on suspicion of having killed as many as 30 patients at François Quesnay Hospital in Mantes-la-Jolie on the outskirts of Paris. She confessed to some of the murders, but claimed she had done so at the request of the patients, who were all terminally ill. France, however, does not recognize a "right to die", and Malèvre eventually recanted most of her confessions. The families of several of her victims strongly denied that their relatives had expressed any will to die, much less asked Malèvre to kill them. Malèvre went on trial in Versailles on 20 January 2003 and was later sentenced to ten years in prison for the murder of six of the seven patients she had assisted in killing. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less