Editing Serial killer (section)

===Medical professionals===
{{Main|Angel of mercy (criminology)}}
[[File:Kotobuki san'in court 19480616.png|thumb|Trial of [[Miyuki Ishikawa]] and her accomplices who killed infants born out of wedlock, 1948]]
Some people with a pathological interest in the power of life and death tend to be attracted to medical professions or acquiring such a job.<ref>{{harvnb|Hickey|2010|p=142}}</ref> These kinds of killers are sometimes referred to as "angels of death"<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/angels/index.html |title=Angels of Death |journal=New Scientist |volume=225 |issue=3007 |pages=40–43 |access-date=December 30, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218133027/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/angels/index.html |archive-date=December 18, 2008 |bibcode=2015NewSc.225...40W |last1=Wires |first1=Linda |year=2015 |doi=10.1016/S0262-4079(15)60268-8 }}</ref> or angels of mercy. Medical professionals will kill their patients for money, for a sense of sadistic pleasure, for a belief that they are "easing" the patient's pain, or simply "because they can".{{sfn|Holmes|Holmes|1998|p=204}} Perhaps the most prolific of these was the British doctor [[Harold Shipman]]. Another such killer was nurse [[Jane Toppan]], who admitted during her murder trial that she was [[Lust murder|sexually aroused by death]].<ref name="Female_Lust_Kill">{{cite web|title=When Women Kill Together |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go1613/is_1_16/ai_n29335603/ |first=Katherine |last=Ramsland |work=The Forensic Examiner |publisher=American College of Forensic Examiners Institute |date=March 22, 2007 |access-date=August 2, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100829110653/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go1613/is_1_16/ai_n29335603/ |archive-date=August 29, 2010}}</ref> She would administer a drug mixture to patients she chose as her victims, lie in bed with them and hold them close to her body as they died.<ref name="Female_Lust_Kill"/>

Another medical professional serial killer is [[Genene Jones]]. It is believed she killed 11 to 46 infants and children while working at Bexar County Medical Center Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, United States.<ref name="biography.com-2012">{{cite web|title=Genene Jones Biography|url=http://www.biography.com/people/genene-jones-235417#criminal-background|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120603170851/http://www.biography.com/people/genene-jones-235417|archive-date=3 June 2012}}</ref> She is currently serving a 99-year sentence for the murder of Chelsea McClellan and the attempted murder of Rolando Santos,<ref name="biography.com-2012" /> and became eligible for parole in 2017 due to a law in Texas at the time of her sentencing to reduce [[prison overcrowding]].<ref name="biography.com-2012" /> A similar case occurred in Britain in 1991, where nurse [[Beverley Allitt]] killed four children at the hospital where she worked, attempted to kill three more, and injured a further six over the course of two months. A 21st-century example is Canadian nurse [[Elizabeth Wettlaufer]], who murdered elderly patients in the nursing homes where she worked. William George Davis is another hospital nurse who was sentenced to death in Texas for the murder of four patients.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://people.com/crime/texas-hospital-nurse-serial-killer-murdered-patients-with-ivs/|title=Murder in the ICU: Inside the Twisted Case of a Hospital Nurse Who Turned Out To Be a Serial Killer|website=Peoplemag|access-date=April 12, 2022|archive-date=April 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220412123130/https://people.com/crime/texas-hospital-nurse-serial-killer-murdered-patients-with-ivs/|url-status=live}}</ref>