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"Dr. Death" (Kevorkian) seeks pardon or commutation
UPI ^ | 11.08.04

Posted on 11/08/2004 3:36:03 PM PST by 4kevin

A lawyer for Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian asked the Michigan parole board Monday to recommend the governor release his client from prison. The request comes a week after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider an appeal by the euthanasia advocate, WWJ-AM, Detroit, reported. The former pathologist's lawyer asked the board to recommend either a pardon or a commutation, either of which would free the 75-year-old activist, who has been in prison since he was convicted of second-degree murder in the 1998 poisoning of Thomas Youk, a Lou Gehrig's disease victim whose death Kevorkian called a mercy killing. Youk's death was videotaped and shown on CBS's 60 Minutes. This is the second time Kevorkian has requested a pardon or commutation. The state parole board voted against his first request a year ago.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: abortion; drdeath; euthanasia; kevorkian; massmurder; suicide Comment #1 Removed by Moderator

To: 4kevin

The only way Kevorkian should get out of prison early is to provide treatment for Yassar Arafat.


2 posted on 11/08/2004 3:36:54 PM PST by PilloryHillary (John Kerry lied while good men died.)
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To: 4kevin; floriduh voter

Michael Schiavo and his attorneys and Judge Greer are not any better than Kervorkian and yet they get to slide. Go figure. http://www.terrisfight.org


3 posted on 11/08/2004 3:38:19 PM PST by Saundra Duffy (Save Terri Schiavo!!!)
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To: johnfkerrysucks

Good answer!


4 posted on 11/08/2004 3:39:02 PM PST by 4kevin
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To: 4kevin

He was a punk. They let him go once, and he kept right on doing it.


5 posted on 11/08/2004 3:39:07 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: 4kevin
I used to be opposed to Dr. Death ever seeing freedom again. I've changed my opinion recently...when I realized that so many grief stricken liberals are so desperately in need of his service since the election.

I say let him out and fund him to hold group "therapy" sessions.

6 posted on 11/08/2004 3:41:10 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: 4kevin

You mean they haven't executed him yet?


7 posted on 11/08/2004 3:43:08 PM PST by Tribemike (Here is the text of the article....)
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To: 4kevin

Let me think...Ahhhh... No.


8 posted on 11/08/2004 3:43:39 PM PST by keat
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To: SteveMcKing

He could be released under codition that he would "mercy kill" himself. He can do that in jail and save some taxpayer money.


9 posted on 11/08/2004 3:44:38 PM PST by Leo Carpathian (We Voted the RATS out!!!)
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To: 4kevin
I've done a bit of critical research on Kevorkian, and I've come to the conclusion he IS NOT motivated by the altruistic goal of "easing suffering," which people are free to debate one way or another.

The guy is a serial killer. Plain and simple. He uses a needle instead of a knife, but so have hundreds of other "angels of death" serial murderers throughout history.
10 posted on 11/08/2004 3:50:47 PM PST by The Hollywood Conservative (I can't even make a tagline because I'm a GIANT IDIOT!!!)
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To: 4kevin

Let him go.

Go to follywood that is, and he can only pratice on liberals, and all the money he earns has to go to the RNC

Some of our Canadian friends will thank us.

PS Jack, you'll need a 55 gal. drum---> Michael Moore is waiting !!!


11 posted on 11/08/2004 3:55:39 PM PST by dfwddr
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To: Saundra Duffy

They didn't arrest Kevorkian the first time around though. Felos brags of killing thousands of people already and as long as he has the state's authorization and a blind judge who says that he saw clear and convincing evidence, thousands more will die.


12 posted on 11/08/2004 4:03:30 PM PST by floriduh voter (www.conservative-spirit.org (mine))
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To: 4kevin

Eh, just let the guy die in prison, forget the death penalty, he's getting old anyway.


13 posted on 11/08/2004 4:05:33 PM PST by katdawg
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To: 4kevin
to recommend the governor release his client from prison.

I say let him stay where he is. He can contemplate his own stupidity and powerlessness as an old man.

14 posted on 11/08/2004 4:26:28 PM PST by Tom Bombadil
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To: 4kevin

Since he's too old and sick to stay in jail he should assist his own suicide. He's really good at it.


15 posted on 11/08/2004 4:29:54 PM PST by dc-zoo
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To: 4kevin
Is there any reason this guy shouldn't die in prison?

Yes. There is a 'hugh' market in which he could have capitalised upon.

About 50,000,000 democrats.

Kevork' would make more money in six months than Soros did in two years.

I'm 'series' 'two'. ROFLOL.

16 posted on 11/08/2004 4:38:21 PM PST by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: 4kevin

"Is there any reason this guy shouldn't die in prison?"

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison." - Henry David Thoreau

I say leave him in.


17 posted on 11/08/2004 4:47:37 PM PST by IAMNO1
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To: 4kevin

Give the guy a break! Impose the death sentence.


18 posted on 11/08/2004 4:49:55 PM PST by ValerieUSA
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