Here is one account of such a hate crime.
Marta
Indiana nurse found guilty of killing patients
BRAZIL, Ind., Oct 17 (Reuters) - An Indiana jury on Sunday found a former nurse guilty of giving fatal injections to six patients in his care, allegedly because he hated the elderly.
The verdict in Clay County Circuit Court came after four days of deliberations in the trial of Orville Lynn Majors.
Jurors found him guilty of murder in the deaths of four women and two men who ranged in age from 56 to 89. The jurors could not agree on a verdict in a seventh case involving a 74-year-old woman.
Prosecutors alleged that from 1993 to 1995 Majors gave patients at Vermillion County Hospital in central Indiana fatal overdoses of drugs and that some of the injections were witnessed by the victims' loved ones.
Investigators said he used the potentially heart-stopping drug potassium chloride, vials of which were found in his home and car.
A former roommate, Andy Harris, testified that Majors told him he hated old people and said ``they should all be gassed.''
Another friend said Majors confessed to him in 1996, a year after he was fired from the hospital, that he used potassium chloride injections to kill the patients.
Majors said he was innocent and his lawyers cited testimony from doctors at the Clinton, Indiana facility that the patients involved had died of natural causes.
Many of the doctors face negligence civil suits from families of patients who died at the 54-bed hospital over the 22-month period when Majors worked there.
Majors, 38, did not testify at his five-week trial. Prosecutors said they would seek a life sentence.
19:56 10-17-99
-- Marta Russell author Los Angeles, CA Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract http://www.commoncouragepress.com/ramps.html