Dr. Jack Kevovorkian Case

Dr. Jack Kevorkian, was an American pathologist who was arrested on 1999 in case of voluntary euthanasia. He was perform assisted suicide despite the fact that it was illegal, so he was convicted of second-degree murder. It is thought that Dr. Kevorkian assisted in the suicides of about one hundred patients, most of whom self-administered the lethal doses of medication. In the case Dr. Kevorkian was convicted, however, the patient, who was in the final stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease), gave his consent, but Dr. Kevorkian administered the injection that killed him. He wrote at journal article in 1959” I propose that a prisoner condemned to death by due process of law be allowed to