ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A judge gave a former nurse who killed at least 29 patients in two states six more life sentences Friday at a hearing in which the defendant had to be gagged with a cloth and duct tape.
The new sentences bring Charles Cullen's punishment to a total of 18 life sentences.
Cullen, who committed one of the worst murder sprees ever discovered in the U.S. health care system, spent 30 minutes repeating the sentence, "Your honor, you need to step down," hundreds of times.
Cullen, who was sentenced last week to 11 consecutive life terms in New Jersey, administered lethal overdoses to seven patients at nursing homes and hospitals in Pennsylvania, and tried to kill three others.
Cullen had tried to avoid showing up at his various sentencing hearings.
On Friday, he told Lehigh County President Judge William Platt he was upset over comments the judge made in a newspaper article in which Platt said he was inclined to make Cullen show up at sentencing.
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Killer nurse gagged with duct tape at sentencing
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QUOTE(NawlinsGirl @ Mar 15 2006, 07:45 PM) 
ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A judge gave a former nurse who killed at least 29 patients in two states six more life sentences Friday at a hearing in which the defendant had to be gagged with a cloth and duct tape.
The new sentences bring Charles Cullen's punishment to a total of 18 life sentences.
Cullen, who committed one of the worst murder sprees ever discovered in the U.S. health care system, spent 30 minutes repeating the sentence, "Your honor, you need to step down," hundreds of times.
Cullen, who was sentenced last week to 11 consecutive life terms in New Jersey, administered lethal overdoses to seven patients at nursing homes and hospitals in Pennsylvania, and tried to kill three others.
Cullen had tried to avoid showing up at his various sentencing hearings.
On Friday, he told Lehigh County President Judge William Platt he was upset over comments the judge made in a newspaper article in which Platt said he was inclined to make Cullen show up at sentencing.
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