Randall Scott Shreiner, 68, of West Lampeter Township, had asked to be released into his wife’s care after his attorney argued he was suffering from stage-five chronic kidney disease and had less than six months to live. The petition, filed in July, claimed the medical care provided in state prison was inadequate.
Judge Jeffery D. Wright disagreed, ruling that lifesaving treatment is already available to Shreiner in prison. “It would shock the conscience of this Court to allow [Shreiner] to be released, essentially unsupervised, to his wife’s home to live out whatever time he has left in peace and comfort when he so gruesomely and heartlessly cut short Ms. Miller’s life,” Wright wrote.
First Assistant District Attorney Travis Anderson also argued that Shreiner had “manufactured his own terminal condition” by repeatedly refusing dialysis treatment that doctors deemed necessary for his survival. Judge Wright agreed, noting that Shreiner’s “limited life expectancy appears to be the self-inflicted result of his repeated refusal to accept treatment.”…