Mays sentencing scheduled for 9 a.m. Tuesday By
May 10, 2021 - 9:42 pm
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. A former nurse at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center will be sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty last summer to killing multiple veterans.
The criminal sentencing for Reta Mays is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. at the U.S. District Court in Clarksburg.
Mays pleaded guilty last July to seven counts of second-degree murder and one count of assault with intent to commit murder connected to multiple deaths over a nearly one-year period. Mays previously admitted to giving patients lethal doses of insulin but has not stated a motive for her actions.
May 11, 2021
CHARLESTON (AP) Sentencing is set this week for a fired nursing assistant who admitting to killing seven elderly veterans with fatal doses of insulin at a West Virginia hospital. Still a mystery is what provoked Reta Mays to commit the crimes.
Mays pleaded guilty last year to intentionally killing the patients with wrongful insulin injections at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg. She faces up to life in prison for each of seven counts of second-degree murder when she is sentenced Tuesday in federal court.
Mays, 46, of Reynoldsville, admitted at a July plea hearing to injecting the veterans with unprescribed insulin while she worked overnight shifts at the northern West Virginia hospital between 2017 and 2018. Hospital officials reported the deaths to the VA inspector general and fired Mays.
Mays cried and apologized in addressing the court briefly before learning her sentence.
“I know that there’s no words that I can say that would alter the families’ pain and comfort,” she said. “I don’t ask for forgiveness because I don’t think I could forgive anyone for doing what I did.”
Hospital officials reported the deaths to the VA inspector general and fired Mays after evidence pointed to her.
An interview with Mays after her guilty plea was included in a lengthy report released after Tuesday s sentencing by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of Inspector General detailing deficiencies at the hospital.
John Raby
Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) A former nursing assistant who killed seven elderly veterans with fatal injections of insulin at a West Virginia hospital was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday by a federal judge who called her the monster that no one sees coming.
Reta Mays has a history of mental health issues, and offered no explanation Tuesday for why she killed the men. But U.S. District Judge Thomas Kleeh told her you knew what you were doing before sentencing her to seven consecutive life terms, a punishment that means she ll likely die in prison.
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