MILAN — An Italian appeals court on Tuesday upheld a life sentence for an emergency room doctor convicted of killing ten people, while acquitting him of three other murders.
The ruling by the Milan court against Leonardo Cazzaniga, 65, came just months after it upheld a 30-year-old sentence against his nurse lover for killing two people.
Dubbed the “diabolical lovers”, in the Italian press, they have been incarcerated since 2016 for a series of murders while working in the emergency room of the Saronno hospital, near Milan.
Cazzaniga, the former number two in the hospital’s emergency room, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter of eight patients.
He was also convict…
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