Assisted suicide has national support as Kevorkian leaves jail: "Dr. Death" paroled
As Jack Kevorkian was released June 1 from a Michigan prison after serving eight years for second-degree murder in the assisted death of a man with Lou Gehrig’s disease, new polls suggested that his cause retains strong support.
An Associated Press–Ipsos poll released as the frail pathologist, 79, left prison showed that 53 percent of Americans believe that Kevorkian never should have gone to jail for the assisted-suicide campaign he championed in the 1990s; 40 percent supported Kevorkian’s imprisonment.