While this ruling should be respected, the appeals process exists to examine unresolved questions. Péchier's conviction rests largely on circumstantial links and statistical patterns, not physical evidence, eyewitnesses or a confession, all of which he's denied for eight years. ProsecutorsEven prosecutors acknowledged many adverse events could reflect medical errors by others, while his frequent presence may reflectbe explained by his role in emergency roleresponse rather than deliberate poisoning by a single physician. These issues warrant an appeal.

This doctor deliberately poisoned 30 patients over nearly a decade, killing 12 of them, by contaminating IV bags with lethal substances. His motive was not medicine, but ego — a calculated effort to assert superiority and psychologically torment colleagues he resented. The evidence is overwhelming: he was present at every suspicious cardiac arrest, quickly identified antidotes before lab confirmation and targeted patients under the care of doctors he had conflicts with. Justice demands he never walk free again.