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COLDWATER, Michigan, May 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Infamous euthanasia activist “Dr.” Jack Kevorkian has pledged to work towards getting assisted suicide legalized after his release from prison for the murder of a man with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Kevorkian admitted his intention of pursuing legalized assisted suicide, in a telephone interview with Michigan TV station WJBK. He was careful to say he would not break any laws in the process. Kevorkian is scheduled to be released from prison on parole June 1, after serving just over eight years of his 10-25 year sentence for second-degree murder in the televised death...

Lansing, MI (LifeNews.com) -- Assisted suicide crusader Jack Kevorkian is slated to be paroled on June 1 and the former pathologist says he's going to travel the lecture circuit promoting news laws in each state legalizing assisted suicide. The 78 year-old originally went to prison after he was convicted of killing a patient on national television. Kevorkian was sent to prison in 1999 after showing a videotape on CBS News of him euthanizing Thomas Youk, who was in the latter stages of Lou Gehrig's disease. He was supposed to serve 10 to 25 years, according to his sentence but was...

'DR. DEATH' TO BE RELEASED AP May 27, 2007 -- LANSING, Mich. - Jack Kevorkian is due to be released from prison Friday, after having served more than eight years of a 10-to-25-year sentence. The retired pathologist, who waged a defiant campaign to help profoundly ailing people commit suicide, was convicted in the assisted death of a Michigan man.