Posted on 11/19/2005 8:23:15 PM PST by digital-olive
Jack Kevorkian's attorney is asking Michigan's governor and parole board for a third time to pardon the 77-year-old assisted-suicide advocate or commute his sentence.
Kevorkian is eligible for parole in 2007, but attorney Mayer Morganroth says he might not live that long. Kevorkian suffers from a number of ailments, including high blood pressure, arthritis, cataracts, osteoporosis and Hepatitis C, he said.
"The man is in dire shape," Morganroth said in a statement Saturday. "Prison has deteriorated him almost to the point of no return."
Gov. Jennifer Granholm has said in the past that she won't consider pardoning Kevorkian. Two previous requests with parole board, in 2003 and 2004, were denied, Morganroth said.
Kevorkian is serving a 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder for giving a fatal injection of drugs to Thomas Youk in 1998, a death that was videotaped and shown on CBS' "60 Minutes."
Youk, 52, had Lou Gehrig's disease, and Kevorkian called his death a mercy killing.
Kevorkian has said he assisted in at least 130 deaths, but has since promised not to assist in more suicides if he is released from prison.
What happened to Geoffrey Feiger?
LOL Good first post.
Geoff is running for AG.
He wants out? They have pillows in the cells, don't they?
FReeper seeks pardon for misguided lawyer...............
The Culture of Death/Eugenics movement of which Kevorkian is a champion has long adhered to the view that certain lives are worthless and that these people are useless to society and should simply be abandoned. So, in essense, Kevorkian is being treated far better in prison than he would be by the other eugenicists.
Let's see--he killed over 130 people, and he's worried that he may get sicker and die in prison before he's eligible for parole in connection with a very light sentence.
Darn it, I was so hoping to care.
And his dead have no point of return, either. Keep him in his cell where he belongs.
Since he is the great suicide advocate why doesn't he just take some of his own medicine and be done with it?
"The man is in dire shape," Morganroth said in a statement Saturday. "Prison has deteriorated him almost to the point of no return."
Boo hoo. I wonder what treatment the good doctor would prescribe to someone in his own shape.
But apparently not willing to put himself out of his misery. Perhaps one of his relatives needs to arrange an involutary assisted suicide.
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Look at some of Kevorkian's paintings - scary:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kevorkian/aboutk/art/
No one would pardon a rabid skunk. Yet such a creature has more right to pardon than does Kevorkian.
The old fool doesn't need a pardon. Just send him a Kevorkian suicide kit. That'll get him out of prison.
The ONLY reason why I think he should get out of prison is because, being in MI, I am paying for his healthcare.
Let him out on a tether and let him pay his own way to meet the Devil.
I find the comments for the paintings disturbing.
I swear I didn't sense necrophilia. It was more an intense attraction to the process of someone dying rather than an attraction to someone already dead.
For most of my adult life I have been an agnostic regarding such things as possession and exorcism. Yet, even through the TV screen during that press conference, had the extremely disturbing sensation that through the face and voice of Kevorkian I was getting a glimpse of hell.
I think the rest of the nation owes the taxpayers of Michigan a debt of gratitude for keeping him incarcerated. I don't think there is a tether short enough to leash him while he is extant.
If Al-Zarqawi id dead, who's next?
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