State Court Deliberates on Kevorkian Appeal
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A state appeals court panel in Detroit heard arguments on whether assisted-suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian deserves a new trial on his March 1999 second-degree murder conviction.
Kevorkian, 73, is serving a 10- to 25-year sentence for the 1998 injection death of a terminally ill Oakland County man. Thomas Youk, who had ALS, was shown on CBS’ “60 Minutes” getting a lethal dose of potassium chloride from Kevorkian.
Kevorkian’s attorney, Mayer Morganroth, contended that the autopsy never proved that Youk died as a direct result of the lethal injection given by Kevorkian--an argument the prosecution disputes.
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