Former nursing aide who admitted to killing 7 veterans with fatal doses of insulin sentenced to life in prison

A former nursing assistant who killed seven elderly veterans with fatal injections of insulin at a West Virginia hospital was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday by a federal judge who called her "the monster that no one sees coming." Reta Mays has a history of mental health issues, and offered no explanation Tuesday for why she killed the men.

But U.S. District Judge Thomas Kleeh told her "you knew what you were doing" before sentencing her to seven consecutive life terms, a punishment that means she'll likely die in prison. Mays, 46, pleaded guilty last year in federal court to seven counts of second-degree murder for intentionally injecting the men with unprescribed insulin at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg.