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    William George Davis - Texas Death Row






    East Texas nurse accused of injuring patients indicted on capital murder, 3 more aggravated assault charges

    By LouAnna Campbell
    Tyler Morning Telegraph

    Christus Trinity Mother Frances issues statement about new indictments

    Christus Mother Frances Hospital – Tyler issued a statement on its website Friday concerning William Davis' capital murder indictment.

    "Christus Mother Frances Hospital – Tyler continues to be grateful for the Grand Jury’s work and the efforts of the Tyler Police Department since we reported this issue on Jan. 28, 2018," the statement reads.

    The statement said the hospital is working in concert with the Tyler Police Department to review patient files since the beginning of Davis’s employment.

    "However, due to a protective order put in place by Judge Christi Kennedy, we’re unable to speak to specifics of that review or our processes and referrals of cases to Tyler law enforcement for investigation," the statement reads.

    The statement said the hospital continues to be distressed by these serious allegations. However, the health care ministry remains rooted in our mission to extend the healing ministry of Jesus Christ, according to the statement.

    "We will not allow this matter to take away from the exceptional holistic care provided to our patients and their families," the statement reads.

    The East Texas nurse accused of injuring patients at a Tyler hospital faces additional charges including capital murder, according to Smith County judicial records.

    The county's criminal case records data base shows the Smith County grand jury handed up the charges on Tuesday.

    William George Davis faces three additional charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and capital murder, according to judicial records.

    Davis was indicted for murder and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on June 21.

    Davis, a nurse at the Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital, was arrested in April and charged with murder related to the August death of Christopher Greenaway, 47, who was recovering from a heart procedure at the hospital.

    Officials believe Davis intentionally injected air into arterial lines of patients recovering from heart surgery, causing them to have stroke-like symptoms.

    Davis worked for Christus Mother Frances Hospital-Tyler for five years and was terminated February 15, about a week after hospital officials went to police with their concerns. Prior to that, he worked for Christus Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview from 2011 to 2013. All the incidents included in the arrest warrant affidavit occurred at Christus Mother Frances Hospital-Tyler.

    The affidavit indicates Tyler police investigators looked at staffing and payroll records and determined that Davis was the only nurse assigned to the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at the date and time of each incident. They also reviewed hospital security footage pertaining to the seven incidents and observed Davis entering the room of three patients who suffered episodes within minutes of him leaving their room.

    Information under the criminal homicide chapter of the Texas Penal Code states a person commits capital murder if the person murders more than one person during the same criminal transaction or during different criminal transactions but the murders are committed pursuant to the same scheme or course of conduct.

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    Trial pushed back for ex-nurse charged in Tyler hospital deaths

    By KYTX News

    A former East Texas nurse accused of killing several patients at a Tyler hospital has had one of his trial dates pushed back to September 2019 and has been granted a continuance for the other.

    William George Davis, 34, of Hallsville, appeared Thursday with his defense attorney in the 114th District Court before Judge Christi Kennedy.

    The defense asked for a continuance in his trial for murder/aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

    Davis' attorney requested his pretrial hearing and plea agreement for murder and aggravated assault charges be moved to Dec. 3, almost three weeks later. Kennedy granted the continuance.

    According to the most updated Smith County judicial records, the trial for Davis' murder and assault charges is scheduled for May 20, 2019.

    Additional pretrial hearings are scheduled for April 2019, with a trial date set for Sept. 23, 2019, in which Davis is facing a separate charge of capital murder of multiple persons.

    Davis is accused of murdering patients while he worked as a nurse at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital. He was fired by the hospital system in February.

    Davis' nursing license was suspended during a meeting in Austin on March 16, according to an order from the Texas Board of Nursing.

    The board upheld four charges against Davis based on incidents that happened while he was a registered nurse with Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital–Tyler and on assignment at the Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital in Tyler.

    The indictment dated Aug. 28 says William George Davis, 34, intentionally and knowingly caused the deaths of John Lafferty, Ronald Clark and Christopher Greenaway by introducing air into their arterial systems.

    Lafferty's injuries and death occurred on or about June 16, 2017, and Clark's injuries and death occurred on or about July 26, 2017, according to the capital murder indictment.

    Davis also was indicted on three more charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for the injuries of Gary Parker, James Wages and Rickie Glenn, according to the indictments obtained from the 114th District Court.

    Parker's injuries occurred on or about July 14, 2017. Wages was injured on or about Aug. 7, 2017, and Glenn sustained life-threatening injuries on or about Oct. 26, 2017.

    Davis remains in the Smith County Jail on bonds totaling $5 million.

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    May 31, 2019

    Tyler nurse accused of multiple murders has trial moved to September 2020

    By Patrick Cunningham and Christa Wood
    KETK News

    The former CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances nurse accused of murdering multiple patients has had his trial moved to September 2020, according to judicial records.

    It is unclear what caused the trial to be delayed. His original trial was scheduled for September 23, 2019.

    https://www.easttexasmatters.com/cri...eptember-2020/
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    Prosecutors will seek death penalty for Tyler nurse charged with capital murder

    KLTV

    TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - A former East Texas nurse charged with capital murder was back in court Thursday morning.

    Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against William George Davis. He’s accused of inserting air into patients’ arterial lines, while working as a nurse at CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler. At least seven victims were identified. Two of them died and two were left in a vegetative state. The conditions of the other victims are unknown.

    Davis was fired in February 2018 after supervisors noticed irregularities in patients recovering from heart surgery at the Louis and Peaches Heart Hospital. Davis was arrested in April 2018 after a lengthy investigation.

    His next pretrial hearing is set for April 24, 2020.

    Davis is set for trial in September 2020.

    https://www.kltv.com/2020/02/20/pros...apital-murder/

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    Judge says trial of nurse accused of killing three patients in Tyler hospital to continue as scheduled

    The case of a former East Texas nurse accused of being responsible for the deaths of three patients at a Tyler hospital will go on as scheduled.

    William George Davis, 36, of Hallsville, intentionally and knowingly caused the deaths of John Lafferty, Ronald Clark and Christopher Greenaway by introducing air into their arterial systems, according to the Aug. 28, 2018, indictment.

    Judge Christi Kennedy of the 114th District denied a motion for continuance from the defense during a virtual pre-trial hearing on Friday.

    Davis' attorneys cited possible conflicting dates with the Davis case and another case they're working on out of Dallas and falling behind due to the COVID-19.

    Kennedy said she would not grant the motion at this time because there are still many unknown variables. She said the judge in Dallas is willing to move evidence up for that case and planning to be finished with trial in September.

    According to court records, the next pre-trial hearing is scheduled for June 19.

    In a Feb. 20 hearing, Smith County District Attorney Jacob Putman announced the state's intention to seek the death penalty.

    Davis has been indicted on three more charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for the injuries of Gary Parker, James Wages and Rickie Glenn, other patients at the hospital who were at times in his care, according to the indictments.

    Davis is facing a capital murder of multiple persons, murder and five charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He was arrested April 10, 2018, and remains in the Smith County Jail on bonds totaling $6.75 million, according to Smith County Jail records.

    Davis, a former nurse at the Christus Trinity Mother Frances Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital, was arrested in April 2018 and charged with murder related to the August 2017 death of Greenaway, 47, who was recovering from a heart procedure at the hospital.

    Davis was indicted June 21, 2018, on a murder charge in connection with Greenaway’s death. He also was indicted on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in relation to the injuries he is suspected of causing to patients Pamela Henderson, 64, and Joseph Kalina, 58.

    Davis is believed to be responsible for killing three people and causing serious injuries to five others.

    Officials believe Davis intentionally injected air into arterial lines of patients who were recovering from heart surgery, causing them to have stroke-like symptoms. Hospital officials initially informed law enforcement of seven suspicious and/or unexplained incidents.

    Davis worked for Christus Mother Frances Hospital-Tyler for five years and was fired Feb. 15, 2018, about a week after hospital officials went to police with their concerns. Prior to that, he worked for Christus Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview from 2011 to 2013.

    All the incidents included in the arrest warrant affidavit occurred at Christus Mother Frances Hospital-Tyler.

    Davis’ nursing license was suspended during a meeting in Austin in March 2018, according to a Texas Board of Nursing order.

    The affidavit indicates Tyler police investigators looked at staffing and payroll records and determined that Davis was the only nurse assigned consistently to the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at the date and time of each incident. They also reviewed hospital security footage pertaining to the incidents and observed Davis entering the room of three patients who suffered episodes within minutes of him leaving their room.

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    This is very similar to the Kimberly Saenz case. It's an absolutely heinous crime but like with Saenz, the prosecution is gonna have an uphill verdict to convince a jury that Davis will be a future danger to society behind bars. Kenisha Berry (killed her two babies) had her death sentence converted to life after the TCCA ruled that she was a threat specifically only to her own children and she wouldn't be a danger to others behind bars as she wouldn't have more children. Similarly, as Davis is not gonna be treating elderly patients in prison, is he still gonna be a danger beyond a reasonable doubt? Probably not.

    It's strange because in pretty much every other state, this is a slam dunk death penalty case (as much as it can be anyway). Raises an interesting point about the future danger requirement in Texas. With more run of the mill cases, I think once a jury has found a defendant a future danger, it makes them more likely to ignore mitigating factors and return a death sentence to stop further acts of violence taking place. The Flip side for prosecutors is that it can make it harder to get a death sentence in some more typical death penalty cases like this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JLR View Post
    This is very similar to the Kimberly Saenz case. It's an absolutely heinous crime but like with Saenz, the prosecution is gonna have an uphill verdict to convince a jury that Davis will be a future danger to society behind bars. Kenisha Berry (killed her two babies) had her death sentence converted to life after the TCCA ruled that she was a threat specifically only to her own children and she wouldn't be a danger to others behind bars as she wouldn't have more children. Similarly, as Davis is not gonna be treating elderly patients in prison, is he still gonna be a danger beyond a reasonable doubt? Probably not.

    It's strange because in pretty much every other state, this is a slam dunk death penalty case (as much as it can be anyway). Raises an interesting point about the future danger requirement in Texas. With more run of the mill cases, I think once a jury has found a defendant a future danger, it makes them more likely to ignore mitigating factors and return a death sentence to stop further acts of violence taking place. The Flip side for prosecutors is that it can make it harder to get a death sentence in some more typical death penalty cases like this.
    The future dangerousness requirement is a relic of life before LWOP, when if you were not so irredeemable to be put to death, you should expect to be rehabilitated and released someday. With LWOP it means those whom we decide to execute are those so heinous that not only must they die in prison, but at the time and in the manner the state chooses.

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    Quote Originally Posted by schmutz View Post
    The future dangerousness requirement is a relic of life before LWOP, when if you were not so irredeemable to be put to death, you should expect to be rehabilitated and released someday. With LWOP it means those whom we decide to execute are those so heinous that not only must they die in prison, but at the time and in the manner the state chooses.
    I understand why it was brought in but the requirement still exists though and the TCCA after the Berry case now applies the standard to a prison society. You now have to prove that that someone would be a danger whilst behind bars for the rest of their life. Kimberly Saenz was a nurse who killed five patients by injecting them with bleach. It's a worst of the worst crime but she got LWOP after the jury said she wasn't a future danger.

    Lisa Graham was on bail (like Saenz) for the majority of the time before getting convicted and going to Alabama death row. If she was in Texas she would be doing life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JLR View Post
    I understand why it was brought in but the requirement still exists though and the TCCA after the Berry case now applies the standard to a prison society. You now have to prove that that someone would be a danger whilst behind bars for the rest of their life. Kimberly Saenz was a nurse who killed five patients by injecting them with bleach. It's a worst of the worst crime but she got LWOP after the jury said she wasn't a future danger.

    Lisa Graham was on bail (like Saenz) for the majority of the time before getting convicted and going to Alabama death row. If she was in Texas she would be doing life.
    Sounds like a job for the legislature to take up next session.

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    They probably wont though. I think it's easier to get a jury to sentence someone to death once they have found someone a future danger to society than if you don't have the requirement. They are more focused on that than the usual weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances. The TCCA standard isn't exactly hard to meet either. I'd imagine its gonna be the major concern for the prosecutors here though.

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