German doctor jailed for murder of 15 patients and suspected of more

The lead

The German palliative care doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 15 of his patients

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This development in german, doctor, jailed, murder, patients matters because it alters the baseline assumptions that BBC and others have been working from.

What led here

What precedes german doctor jailed for murder of 15 patients and suspected of more, according to BBC, is a sequence of decisions that narrowed the range of possible outcomes.

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The editorial angle

Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of german, doctor, jailed, murder, patients: The German palliative care doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 15 of his patients.