JESS MANCINI For The Intelligencer
PARKERSBURG — A former aide convicted of killing patients at the Louis A. Johnson Clarksburg VA Medical Center got the appropriate sentence, a U.S. senator from West Virginia said Tuesday.
Reta Mays, 46, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Clarksburg to seven consecutive life sentences for murder and 20 years for assault with attempt to murder an eighth victim at the facility.
She injected them with unprescribed doses of insulin, causing hypoglycemia and their deaths.
“Justice has been served,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., told reporters in a video press conference Tuesday from Washington, D.C.