Jack Kervorkian

Jack Kervorkian was born May 28, 1928 in a small suburb of Detroit Michigan. As he was growing up Kervorkian dreamed of training under Jack Graney to be a radio baseball broadcaster. His parents wanted him to pursue a more promising career. Kervorkian was an average kid and he played normal kiddy games. Kervorkian was bored with school but he read vigorously. His childhood friend, Richard Dakesian once said that Kervorkian should have graduated high school at …showed first 75 words of 1041 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1041 total…commit suicide. Many of them were controversial; one of the debatable deaths was Thomas Youk. He died from lethal injection and videotape of his death was aired on CBS two months later. On November 25, 1998 Kervorkian was charged with second degree murder, assisted suicide, and delivery of a controlled substance in Youk's death. The assisted suicide charge was later dropped. After a long trial Kervorkian was sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison, which he is appealing.