"Dr. Death" set to speak out after prison release
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Jack Kevorkian, the assisted suicide advocate known as "Dr. Death," steps out of prison on Friday and back into the debate over whether the terminally ill have a right to end their lives with medical aid.
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Questions are raised about the mental state of the prison's senior officer just before the abuses there
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A murderer was scheduled to die Thursday in what would be the nation's first execution since the day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
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This file photo provided by the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice showing Texas death row inmate Frances Newton who is set for execution by lethal injection in Huntsville on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004.
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Former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey, who has remained publicly silent since resigning from office two years ago after announcing he was gay, is set to tell his story on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
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Nearly 200 inmates serving time for murder, rape and kidnapping will be eligible for immediate release following a ruling by the Delaware Supreme Court that some life sentences should be considered 45-year terms.
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Testimony from former inmates is to be heard at the trial of the alleged ringleader of the Abu Ghraib prison abuses.
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The former governor of Virginia is expected to announce his plans on Thursday.
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The estate of the slain rapper Notorious B.I.G. filed a federal court motion on Monday claiming that a prison inmate who implicated a former police officer in the killing was lying when he recanted his testimony.
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A lawyer representing a Texas death row inmate urged the court to rebuke the state and federal judges who supervise the state's capital punishment system, as oral argument on a case of alleged racial discrimination was heard.
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LOS ANGELES - A rap artist will surrender today in connection with the stabbing of a man who punched rapper Dr. Dre during this week&#39;s taping of the Vibe Awards in Santa Monica, according to an attorney.
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Description: The United States will release &quot;enemy combatant&quot; detainee Yaser Hamdi, who had been held in a military prison for more than two years.
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Time may be running out for a woman on death row in Texas. Frances Newton is scheduled to receive a lethal injection tomorrow evening for the 1987 shooting deaths of her husband and two small children.
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An attorney for Jack Kevorkian asked the state parole board Monday to recommend that the assisted suicide advocate be released from prison for health reasons.
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Shortly after his third suicide attempt, serial killer Michael Ross wrote that life on death row was increasingly unbearable. He described the isolation of sitting in his cell 23 hours a day for years amid the endless slamming of metal and dark thoughts of his own horrific crimes and his impending execution.
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Jack Kevorkian, the man known as Dr Death for helping the terminally to die, is to be freed from a US jail.
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Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the advocate of doctor-assisted suicide who is serving a 10- to 25-year prison term, will be the subject of a feature film.