Texas woman Kimberly Saenz spared death penalty in bleach murders

A Texas jury today shrank from condemning a former nurse to die after convicting her of killing dialysis patients whom she injected with bleach, according to The Associated Press.

Kimberly Saenz will spend the rest of her life in jail without possibility of parole, according to the AP.

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CBS News reported that Clyde Herrington, district attorney in Angelina County, had never explicitly called in jurors to sentence Saenz to die.

"I know you'll reach a verdict that's just and in accordance with the law," he was quoted as telling jurors after showing them photos of some of the victims on a large screen.

According to CNN, two witnesses said they saw Saenz draw bleach with a syringe from a bucket and then inject it into the intravenous fluids administered to patients at the DaVita Dialysis Clinic in Lufkin, which is about 120 miles north of Houston.

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Jurors deliberated for 45 minutes before returning with a sentence of life in prison.

"She's never getting out no matter what you do," Saenz's lawyer, Steve Taylor, was quoted as saying in his closing remarks that asked jurors to choose a life sentence. "Society is protected. You will never see her again."

Ten women are currently on death row in Texas, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The state has executed 481 people since the death penalty was reestablished in 1976 with only two clemencies and 12 death row inmates exonerated.