Kevorkian Is Released From Prison for Surgery
From Times Wire Reports
Assisted-suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian was released from prison so he could undergo bilateral hernia surgery, his lawyer said in Detroit.
Kevorkian, 76, is serving a 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder after being convicted of giving a fatal injection of drugs to a patient with Lou Gehrig’s disease in 1998.
Leo Lalonde, a Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman, said Kevorkian would undergo the surgery at a hospital in Jackson, about 80 miles west of Detroit.
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