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JACK KEVORKIAN TO BE PAROLED
Armenpress
Dec 14 2006
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 14, ARMENPRESS: After more than eight years
behind bars for murder, an ailing Jack Kevorkian, a son of Armenian
immigrants, will be paroled in June on a promise not to help anyone
else commit suicide, U.S. news agencies reported.
The parole board took the 78-year-old Kevorkian's declining health
into consideration, along with the question of whether the former
pathologist would be a danger to society. Kevorkian, once the nation's
most vocal advocate of assisted suicide, is serving a 10- to 25-year
sentence. It would be a much quieter existence for the 78-year-old
retired pathologist than the one he led before being convicted in
1998 of second-degree murder in the assisted suicide of a Michigan man.
Kevorkian, who waged a defiant campaign for nearly a decade to help
other people kill themselves, will be released June 1 - the first day
he is eligible for parole. By the time he was convicted of murder,
he proudly claimed to have assisted in at least 130 deaths.
Now, after sitting in prison for eight years and suffering various
health ailments, that defiant tone has changed. Kevorkian vows he will
never again commit a crime. After being released in June, Kevorkian
will be on probation for two years, during which time he can't leave
the state or change his residence without written permission.
Armenpress
Dec 14 2006
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 14, ARMENPRESS: After more than eight years
behind bars for murder, an ailing Jack Kevorkian, a son of Armenian
immigrants, will be paroled in June on a promise not to help anyone
else commit suicide, U.S. news agencies reported.
The parole board took the 78-year-old Kevorkian's declining health
into consideration, along with the question of whether the former
pathologist would be a danger to society. Kevorkian, once the nation's
most vocal advocate of assisted suicide, is serving a 10- to 25-year
sentence. It would be a much quieter existence for the 78-year-old
retired pathologist than the one he led before being convicted in
1998 of second-degree murder in the assisted suicide of a Michigan man.
Kevorkian, who waged a defiant campaign for nearly a decade to help
other people kill themselves, will be released June 1 - the first day
he is eligible for parole. By the time he was convicted of murder,
he proudly claimed to have assisted in at least 130 deaths.
Now, after sitting in prison for eight years and suffering various
health ailments, that defiant tone has changed. Kevorkian vows he will
never again commit a crime. After being released in June, Kevorkian
will be on probation for two years, during which time he can't leave
the state or change his residence without written permission.