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| 'Dr Death' to be freed from jail |
| Jack Kevorkian, the man known as Dr Death for helping the terminally ill to die, is due to be released from prison in the US state of Michigan.
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 1-June-2007
2:23:10 AM |
| Kevorkian was convicted in 1999 of the murder by injection of terminally ill Thomas Youk. A video of him dying was broadcast on television.
Kevorkian, 79, has served eight years of a 10-25 year sentence.
He has pledged not to counsel people on suicide but says he will continue to fight for the right to euthanasia.
Kevorkian won parole after an appeal based on his own failing health.
TV interview
The BBC's Jeremy Cooke in New York says Jack Kevorkian was among the most controversial and divisive figures in 1990s America.
The elderly former pathologist insisted that patients living in pain had the right to die.
Our correspondent says Kevorkian proudly claimed to have helped some 130 people to end their lives, many using his so-called mercy machine, which delivered lethal amounts of drugs intravenously.
Some of the assisted suicides were in the back of his Volkswagen van.
His methods alienated many. In 1998 he offered on a "first come, first served" basis the kidneys of a man he had helped to die. Kevorkian also dropped off bodies in parks and abandoned buildings.
Kevorkian fought a long battle with the authorities in Michigan, thwarting four attempts to convict him despite the revocation of his medical licence in 1991 and a ban on assisted suicides to stop his work.
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