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Article: Kevorkian Serving 10- to 25-Year Murder Sentence.(assisted suicide physician Jack Kevorkian)(Brief Article)
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- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- May 11, 1999
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Michigan Judge Jessica Cooper finally halted Jack Kevorkian's nine-year euthanasia campaign April 13, sentencing him to 10 to 25 years in prison for the second-degree murder of Thomas Youk.
Kevorkian, now known not as "Dr. Death" but as "Prisoner No. 284797," will be eligible for parole on May 26, 2007, two days before his 79th birthday, according to the Detroit Free Press. Although he has frequently threatened to starve himself to death if imprisoned, Kevorkian told his lawyer that he would continue to eat while his case is being appealed, the Free Press reported.
"We hope that he will never get out of prison," Diane Coleman of the disability-rights ...