The Nation - News from Oct. 2, 1986
A nurse who was acquitted of six murders was sentenced in Albany, Ga., to 17 years in prison for injecting a potentially fatal dose of a heart-stopping drug into plasma given a patient. Terri Rachals, 25, also received three years probation and was ordered to surrender her nursing license while serving her sentence and to undergo periodic psychological tests after her release.
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