|
Kevorkian 'won't kill again'
30/09/2005 14:31 - (SA)
Michigan - If released from prison, former doctor Jack Kevorkian says he'll still campaign to legalise assisted suicide but won't resume helping people to die that way.
Kevorkian, 77, is serving a 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder for giving a fatal injection of drugs to a patient with Lou Gehrig's disease in 1998. Kevorkian, who has said he assisted in at least 130 deaths, is not eligible for parole until 2007.
In an MSNBC interview recorded at a Michigan prison and broadcast on Thursday night, Kevorkian said he also hopes to travel and visit family if granted parole.
He emphasised that he would not help those who want to die by breaking the law or encourage other doctors to do so.
"I have said publicly and officially that I will not perform that act again when I get out," he said. "What I'll do is what I should have done earlier, is pursue this from a legal standpoint by campaigning to get the laws changed."
When asked by interviewer Rita Cosby if he regretted the actions that put him in prison, Kevorkian replied: "Well, I do a little."
Kevorkian also discussed the case of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman whose feeding tube was removed in March after her husband won a court order to allow her to die.
Kevorkian said that had the woman's situation come up 10 years ago, he would have considered taking her as a patient.
|
