Assisted suicide advocate to be paroled in June (Kevorkian)

AP via CNN ^ | December 13, 2006 | AP

[Salman]

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.

[Salman]

Kevorkian paroled just in time to die "with dignity".

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[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...]

I guess he showed them.

[cripplecreek]

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.

Well, maybe just one more.

[Dog Gone]

Kervorkian To Get Parole In June ^
	Posted by Diana in Wisconsin On News/Activism ^ 12/14/2006 2:52:10 PM CST · 8 replies · 221+ views All Headline News ^ | December 14, 2006 | Jacob Cherian Lansing, MI (AHN) - According to a Michigan Parole Board decision on Thursday, Dr. Jack Kervokian, who served eight years in jail for helping to give a lethal dose of drugs to a 52-year-old man will be released on parole on June 1. Kervorkian, 78, was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Thomas Youk in 1998. Youk had Lou Gehrig's disease at the time. Spokesman Russ Marlan said, Kervorkian had been rejected for parole earlier, but the board reconsidered its decision when Kervorkian said his health was declining. The board also reviewed whether or not the pathologist would...
Kevorkian to Be Paroled in June ^
	Posted by Lunatic Fringe On News/Activism ^ 12/13/2006 2:27:39 PM CST · 270 replies · 1,652+ views AP ^ | 12/13/06 | KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN LANSING, Mich. (AP) Michigan officials say assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian will be paroled in June.

[upchuck]

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[Issaquahking]

Hey Jack! I've got six Imams I want you to meet...Ya that's right, they were on an airplane and got the boot.

[thiscouldbemoreconfusing]

I know eight years doesn't seem like long for a killer of his degenerate character, but, most states have found that it saves a lot of money and space to parole men and women who are no threat to society.

Our prisons are so over crowded that many who should do a Little time don't because of lack of space.

Just north of us is Kentucky, a state that, in my opinion, will find itself in a lot of trouble, simply because it is so backwards when it comes to paroles.

state parole boards must come to realize that prisons are overcrowded and money to build new prisons and hire more guards doesn't grow on trees.

Keep and eye on two states, New Mexico and Kentucky.

[traviskicks]

Kevorkian was 'radical' in believing patients should control their own lives and destinies free of government coercion. (IMO)





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