Word: kevorkian
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...University of Utah, "patients who are sophisticated enough to want the aid and physicians who are sympathetic enough to want to give it often do it in such a way that the intent and the knowledge are left deliberately ambiguous." Only a few, like Dr. Jack Kevorkian, have defied this conspiracy of silence...
...Ninth Circuit's nine-state jurisdiction. At least 33 states have laws forbidding assisted suicide, and many of them are under challenge. Clearly the decision is in tune with public opinion. Two days after it was issued, a Michigan jury in the second assisted-suicide trial of Dr. Jack Kevorkian reached the same verdict as the jury in his first trial: not guilty...
...Colin Powell ticket leads 47 percent to Clinton-Gore's 45 percent. Voters also perceive Dole as doing a better job than Clinton in reducing the federal budget deficit and improving the country's moral climate.PONTIAC, MICHIGAN: After deliberating for nine hours over two days, a jury in the Kevorkian assisted suicide case returned a verdict of not guilty on two counts of assisted suicide in the deaths of two terminally ill patients. Kevorkian was charged with assisting the suicides of Merian Frederick, 72 and Dr. Ali Khalili, 61. Frederick had Lou Gehrig's disease, and Khalili was dying...
...Michigan judge has ruled that Jack Kevorkian must stand trial for assisting two suicides in 1991. Kevorkian faces up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine in the deaths of Marjorie Wantz and Sherry Miller. Miller, 48, who had multiple sclerosis, died after inhaling carbon monoxide through a mask. Wantz, who suffered from chronic pelvic pain, died after using a Kevorkian device that injected lethal drugs into her system. The trial is scheduled to begin April 1. Kevorkian was already scheduled to stand trial beginning February 12 for assisting two other suicides in Michigan...
...Jack Kevorkian showed up at the Oakland County (Mich.) Courthouse in homemade stocks and a ball and chain. "His goal is to make the evening news, and this should do it. This is completely consistent with his crusade," says TIME's Nancy Gibbs. Kevorkian wore a sign which read in the front "Common law of Middle Ages. What's next, the Inquisition?" and on the back "Think this is a circus? You're right. But blame the seven Supreme Court jesters." Kevorkian shed the signs before entering the courthouse, where he stood silent as he was arraigned on two counts...