This article is written about the verdict which found Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second degree murder back in 1999. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, or better known as “Dr. Death”, was sentenced to a minimum of 10-25 years in prison after “video taping himself injecting Mr. Youk, who was paralyzed, with lethal chemicals”. However, Dr. Kevorkian did not gain the title of “Dr. Death” directly from this case; rather, he was known to have facilitated at least 130 assisted suicide cases prior to Thomas Youk’s, with no serious legal charges pressed against him. So, what made Youk’s case differ from others one may ask? This time, unlike the many others, Dr. Kevorkian video taped himself injecting the 52 year old amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patient with lethal chemicals; nonetheless, in the four other legal cases he was involved in, he was known to have violated the laws against assisted suicide but only by helping patients give themselves fatal injections through a so called “suicide machine”.…