"Dr. Death" Kevorkian leaves prison
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Jack Kevorkian, the U.S. assisted suicide advocate dubbed "Dr. Death," stepped free from a Michigan prison on Friday with few words but plans for a media blitz to support his cause.
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An Iranian-American academic has been released from detention in Tehran's Evin prison after being held since May, the Open Society Institute said on Wednesday.
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The assisted-suicide enthusiast, who says he helped some 130 people kill themselves, is in prison for the 1998 murder of Thomas Youk, who suffered from Lou Gehrig&#39;s disease.
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Actor Kiefer Sutherland was released on Monday from a Southern California jail, where he served 48 days for drunken driving and violating probation.
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An American convicted of running a private prison in Afghanistan as part of a freelance hunt for terrorists left the country late Saturday following his release from an Afghan jail, officials said.
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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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A technician at a cancer center was sentenced to 16 months in prison for stealing the identity of a gravely ill patient, who spent months trying to clear his name while the disease ravaged his body.
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New York's oldest prisoner Â an 89-year-old former heart surgeon convicted of killing his wife more than 30 years ago Â has been granted parole.
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Naseem Hamed is released from jail 16 weeks into a 15-month sentence for dangerous driving.
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A former American soldier convicted in Afghanistan of running a private jail and torturing terror suspects has left the country after three years in a Kabul prison, the warden said Wednesday.
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Former Guantanamo detainee David Hicks is released from prison in Australia after completing his term.
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A death row inmate whose case led to the U.S. Supreme Court banning execution of the mentally retarded has had his sentence commuted to life in prison.
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By KRISTIN M. HALL NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A convicted murderer who escaped from a Michigan psychiatric facility in 1976 was back behind bars Thursday after living most of his 30 years on the run as an otherwise law-abiding family man in Tennessee, authorities said.
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Tim Masters often drank heavily before he was imprisoned for murder in 1999, but he said he's sworn off the stuff in an interview Wednesday, his first full day of freedom in nearly nine years.
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A Leeds man released from a Pakistani jail after 18 years on death row talks about his experiences.
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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.
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A man who has spent 19 years behind bars for rape and murder was cleared by new DNA testing and will be released from prison, his lawyer said Tuesday.