"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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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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Washington scholar Haleh Esfandiari was allowed to leave Tehran early this morning, ending an eight-month saga of imprisonment and virtual house arrest that heightened tense relations between the United States and Iran.
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An American imprisoned in Afghanistan for running a private jail for terror suspects has left the prison where he was held for almost three years and departed the country, the chief of the prison said Wednesday.
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A US man jailed for running a private prison in Kabul and torturing Afghans is freed, officials say.
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Briton due to be released after spending 20 years on death row in US taken to hospital with chest pains
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A British man who once came within days of being executed was released from an Ohio prison Monday after spending more than 21 years on death row, court officials said.
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'It's good to be home,' says Scot who spent 21 years on death row in America
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Jack Kevorkian has promised to never help another person in an assisted suicide, but that hasn't dimmed the attention focused on his release from prison. The 79-year-old retired pathologist was expected to leave Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater on Friday morning with his attorney.
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Jack Kevorkian, a fiery assisted suicide advocate, will be released from a Michigan prison in June after serving eight years for murder and vowing never to help the terminally ill take their own lives again, state officials said on Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES  - 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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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - A jail inmate allowed to attend a family funeral returned to the jailhouse 12 hours later with a stash of drugs and syringes in his stomach, authorities said.  Joshua Robertson, 30, of Boulder Creek, had been in jail since Oct.
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Some relatives of people who died with Dr. Jack Kevorkian's help say his release from prison stirs up grief over the deaths of their loved ones. Others are grateful for the services the retired pathologist offered to family members.
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Naseem Hamed is released from jail 16 weeks into a 15-month sentence for dangerous driving.
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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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After 48 days behind bars, Kiefer Sutherland was released from incarceration Monday morning at a Glendale, Calif. jail.  The actor left at 12:05 a.m., according to jail spokesman John Balian.  "[Kiefer] looked like he was glad to be out," said Bali...