Posted on 12/22/2005 11:03:25 AM PST by NormsRevenge
LANSING, Mich. - The state parole board rejected a request to pardon assisted-suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian or commute his sentence, despite warnings that he is in grave condition.
The 77-year-old former doctor is serving a 10- to 25-year prison sentence for murder for giving a fatal injection of drugs in 1998 to a man with Lou Gehrig's disease. Kevorkian is not eligible for parole until 2007.
His lawyer, Mayer Morganroth, warned last month that Kevorkian was in "dire shape" and might not live that long. Kevorkian suffers from high blood pressure, arthritis, cataracts, osteoporosis and Hepatitis C, the lawyer said.
But the parole board, in a 7-2 vote, recommended the governor deny the application, according to documents released Thursday.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm will follow the recommendation, as she has done with similar recommendations on Kevorkian in 2003 and 2004, spokeswoman Liz Boyd said.
"I think the parole board is acting irresponsibly and outrageously," Morganroth said. "The doctor in the prison keeps telling us, `What can I do to get him out? He shouldn't be in here.'"
Perhaps they'll at least grant his request for assisted suicide if his condition is so grave.
Irony by the metric ton. Amazing.
Kevorkian suffers from high blood pressure, arthritis, cataracts, osteoporosis and Hepatitis C, the lawyer said.
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Some might say he is a candidate for his own medicine.
The Governor has the authority to allow him to die but at least not in prison.
What will she do?
"Kevorkian suffers from high blood pressure, arthritis, cataracts, osteoporosis and Hepatitis C, the lawyer said."
What a candidate for an assisted suicide!!!!!!
Wonder why this guy didn't off himself when he was originally sentenced....
The Dr knows what he must do!
The state should do everything possible to keep him alive and in jail. That's his ultimate punishment.
Irony ping.
The mass murdering Kevorkian has at his disposal the traditional jailhouse euthanasia device: bedsheets tied into a noose.
Go to it Jack!
God's wrath?
So where are all the Tookie supporters? I guess they're all busy suing towns to take down their Christmas trees...
Sounds like he doesnt want to die. Now, why's that?
He needs to get out so he can arrange for someone to murder him.
Lying POS promised he'd go on a hunger strike if convicted, and wouldn't stop until he starved to death. Now this?
You'd think a doctor would have taken better care of himself.
"Some might say he is a candidate for his own medicine." Physician heal thyself!
TO ashes, Dracula... I mean, Kevorkian.
Maybe the good doctor should let Michael Schiavo minister to him -- after all, giving an ailing person no water and no food is a euphoric way to die! (sarc)
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