Patient Deaths in New Orleans Bring Arrests

Hands in Prayer, New Orleans , 1992

from the book THE REPOSED

Patient Deaths in New Orleans Bring Arrests

BATON ROUGE, La., July 18 — A doctor and two nurses were arrested Tuesday after the Louisiana attorney general accused them of using lethal injections to kill four elderly patients in a New Orleans hospital last year in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

excerpt from The New York Times 7/19/2006

Photograph by William Greiner

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