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Dr. Jack Kevorkian to be Paroled

retrorich

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LANSING, Michigan (AP) -- After more than eight years in prison, a frail Dr. Jack Kevorkian will be paroled in June with a promise that he won't assist in any more suicides, a prison spokesman said Wednesday.
Leo Lalonde, the corrections spokesman, would not provide further details.
Kevorkian, once the nation's most vocal advocate of assisted suicide for the terminally ill, is serving a 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder in the 1998 poisoning of Thomas Youk, 52, an Oakland County man with Lou Gehrig's disease. Michigan banned assisted suicide in 1998.
Youk's death was videotaped and shown on CBS' "60 Minutes."
Kevorkian, who claimed to have assisted in at least 130 deaths in the 1990s, called it a mercy killing.
Mayer Morganroth, Kevorkian's attorney, said this summer that Kevorkian, now 78, was suffering from hepatitis C and diabetes, that his weight had dropped to 113 pounds and that he had less than a year to live.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm ordered corrections authorities to carry out an independent medical evaluation of Kevorkian, but did not commute the retired pathologist's sentence, as Morganroth had hoped.
Kevorkian has always been eligible for parole on June 1, 2007, and will now be released on that date, Lalonde said. He directed calls seeking further comment to Russ Marlan, another state corrections spokesman who did not immediately return calls Wednesday.
If Kevorkian is released on June 1, he will have spent close to 3,000 days in prison since being sentenced in April 1999.
He has promised he would not assist in a suicide if he was released from prison.
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
 

mostly harmless

Endlessly amused
Beer all around on that one...that poor man was doing a service to people who needed it.
Helping people to die with dignity is a crime in this country but helping an animal die with dignity is not.

How backwards.
 

robtex

Veteran Member
That is tragic he is dying while in a prision away from his family and friends. I have a suspicision that he contracted hepatitis C in the prision and that his poor diet from incarceration probably negatively impacted his diabetes. That is a really tough combination of diseases to host. Keeping him for 6 more months with this medical prognosis might mean the difference between him dying in a cell or dying on his own bed in his own home.
 

retrorich

SUPER NOT-A-MOD
Willamena said:
Now THAT's unconscionable.
Why? It helped bring the issue of assisted suicides to the attention of a great many people. And it demonstrated that Dr. Kevorkian was not attempting to cover up his activities. He was not ashamed of his activities, not did he have any reason to be ashamed. They were missions of mercy.
 
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