NewsFebruary 7, 2005
Nation briefs 2/7/05
Texas nurse goes on trial for lethal injections; Female Guard member demoted for mud-wrestling
Texas nurse goes on trial for lethal injections
NOCONA, Texas -- Vickie Dawn Jackson goes on trial this week, charged with injecting elderly patients with lethal drug doses, killing 10 and injuring another. Jury selection begins Tuesday. "I don't know if she did it or not, but she's perfectly capable of it," Jackson's daughter, Jennifer Carson, said. According to Carson, Jackson was angry and verbally abusive at home, though to everyone else she appeared caring and compassionate. Jackson, 38, will be tried this week on capital murder charges for two of the deaths at a hospital in this rural north Texas town, and faces up to life in prison if convicted.
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Female Guard member demoted for mud-wrestling
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A female member of a National Guard military police unit was demoted for indecent exposure after a mud-wrestling party at the Army-run Camp Bucca detention center in Iraq, a military spokesman said Sunday. The party occurred Oct. 30, when "some individuals in their exuberance decided to put together a mud-wrestling thing," Johnson said. Following an inquiry, a soldier was demoted and placed on restriction for participating in the event, specifically for indecent exposure, he said. The soldier was identified by the Daily News as Deanna Allen, 19.
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