"On Sunday night, November 22, 1998, viewers of the CBS television program 60 Minutes watched in horror as Dr. Jack Kevorkian killed fifty-two-year-old Thomas Youk. Youk, suffering from...Lou Gehrig's disease, had asked Kevorkian to end his life, and Kevorkian complied by injecting him with poison to stop his heart.
Youk was not the first person Kevorkian had helped to die, but he was likely the last. In 1999, the seventy-year-old Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to jail for ten to twenty-five years.
What Kevorkian had done was deliberately...hasten another person's death, an act of active 'euthanasia'... Acquitted of the charge of assisting suicide by three juries in the 1990s, Kevorkian crossed the line in
Youk was not the first person Kevorkian had helped to die, but he was likely the last. In 1999, the seventy-year-old Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to jail for ten to twenty-five years.
What Kevorkian had done was deliberately...hasten another person's death, an act of active 'euthanasia'... Acquitted of the charge of assisting suicide by three juries in the 1990s, Kevorkian crossed the line in