Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Doctor Death Gets A Reprieve

LANSING, Mich. — "Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian will be paroled in June, state Corrections spokesman Leo Lalonde said Wednesday.

Kevorkian, who claimed to have assisted in at least 130 deaths in the 1990s, was imprisoned in 1999 for his role in the last of the deaths.

The ailing former pathologist has promised he would not assist in a suicide if he was released from prison. He is 78, and has been eligible all along for parole on June 1, 2007.

The state parole board has turned down four of Kevorkian's requests for parole."

He brought this misery upon himself by flaunting the law. Hoping for a change in assisted suicide statutes, Kevorkian generated enough grotesque publicity to have the opposite occur. Life isn't "sacred", but the taking of it without society's permission is, and should remain a criminal act.

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