Jack Kevorkian | 1928-2011

Dr. Jack Kevorkian stands in the Oakland County District courtroom of Judge Daniel Sawicki in Royal Oak, Mich., during his 1993 arraignment on charges he violated Michigan‘s ban on assisted suicide in the Oct. 22, 1993, death of Merian Fredrick of Ann Arbor.
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Assisted-suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian walks out of the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater, Mich., after his June 2007 release.
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Barbara Walters with Dr. Jack Kevorkian in 1993, attached to a device similar to one Kevorkian has used in assisted suicides.
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Dr. Jack Kevorkian meets reporters in homemade stocks before his September 1995 arraignment on assisted-suicide charges at the Oakland County courthouse in Pontiac, Mich. Kevorkian, a retired pathologist who advocates doctors helping the terminally ill who wish to commit suicide, wore laminated cardboard stocks in apparent reference to a state Supreme Court ruling that said assisted suicide could be prosecuted in Michigan under common law.
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