Christine Malevre
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Christine Malèvre is a French
serial killer
.
A former nurse, she was arrested in 1998 on suspicion of having killed as many as 30 patients. She confessed to some of the murder
s, 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.
She was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2003, for the murders of six patients.
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
serial killer
Serial killer
A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...
.
A former nurse, she was arrested in 1998 on suspicion of having killed as many as 30 patients. She confessed to some of the murder
Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...
s, but claimed she had done so at the request of the patients, who were all terminally ill
Terminal illness
Terminal illness is a medical term popularized in the 20th century to describe a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and that is reasonably expected to result in the death of the patient within a short period of time. This term is more commonly used for progressive diseases such as...
. France, however, does not recognize a "right to die
Right to die
The right to die is the ethical or institutional entitlement of the individual to commit suicide or to undergo voluntary euthanasia. Possession of this right is often understood to mean that a person with a terminal illness should be allowed to commit suicide or assisted suicide or to decline...
", 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.
She was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2003, for the murders of six patients.